Or, as Zen Master Seung Sahn so aptly put it, “Being born is already a big mistake.” In longer form, he would say, “Human beings have no reason, no meaning,
The last word here freaks people out. But it shouldn’t, and it ain’t some sort of easy nihilism, either. Because of this word “mistake”, Schopenhauer’s quote is a flawed (as
Solitude: so fulfilling that even the merest meeting is a crucifixion. — Emil Cioran
If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to
We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.— Emil Cioran And how does that “impregnation” occur? Sitting