04 September 2005

hopelessness...

The question looms in moments of great despair, when things tend to lose all their weight and all meaning becomes obscured....It is present in moments of rejoicing, when all things around us are transfigured and seem to be there for the first time, as if it might be easier to think they are not than to understand that they are and are as are. The question is upon us in boredom, when we are equally removed from despair and joy, and everything about us seems so hopelessly commonplace that we no longer care whether anything is or is not...

Martin Heidegger

... nothingness = despair?

1 comment:

mike/ said...

How is reality a duality? It either is or it isn't. It cannot be both at the same time.