Hello!
Here are this week’s three insights that will help you improve yourself:
1. Harmony
The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad.
—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Evil is necessary — without it, there is no good — in this way, it is good. Just as excessive and constant good is evil.
One end cannot exist without the other.
But that also means that even from evil, you can extract some good. Evil does not necessarily have to have an evil effect on you.
2. Existence
I look round the room. What a farce! All these people sitting there looking serious, eating. No, they aren’t eating: they are reviving their strength in order to complete their respective tasks. Each of them has his little personal obstinancy which prevents him from noticing that he exists —
—Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
We have invented illusions for ourselves, which are like a wall between us and reality. These illusions are words, customs, relationships, titles, work, religions, myths, whatnot.
They prevent you from realizing that the truth of the world. That world is just as it is, and there is nothing that is supposed to be like this or that. And there is nothing you must do. They keep you from seeing how free you are.
This realisation does not have to be depressing, though it may feel like that given how deeply rooted those illusions are, within you.
3. Superstitions
Do not settle on anything as final and fundamental. It is better to get lost than to head, unmistakably, toward the ditch of prejudices and superstitions. Because superstitions are nothing but false beliefs held tightly.
What you may do — and not without caution — is say that this is better than that. That this is more reasonable, more logical than that. (If it is indeed so.)
Yet, never say, this is a universal truth. Doing so will only shut the doors of truth.
Until next time,