It Is Not Enough To Stare Up

It Seems To Me That One Of The Most Basic Human Experiences, One That Is Genuinely Universal And Unites-or, More Precisely, Could Unite-all Of Humanity, Is The Experience Of Transcendence In The Broadest Sense Of The Word.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

We Ask Ourselves All Kinds Of Questions, Such As Why Does A Peacock Have Such Beautiful Feathers, And We May Answer That He Needs The Feathers To Impress A Female Peacock, But Then We Ask Ourselves, And Why Is There A Peacock? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything Living? And Then We Ask, Why Is There Anything At All? And If You Tell Some Advocate Of Scientism That The Answer Is A Secret, He Will Go White Hot And Write A Book. But It Is A Secret. And The Experience Of Living With The Secret And Thinking About It Is In Itself A Kind Of Faith.

I Really Do Inhabit A System In Which Words Are Capable Of Shaking The Entire Structure Of Government, Where Words Can Prove Mightier Than 10 Military Divisions.

I Feel That The Dormant Goodwill In People Needs To Be Stirred. People Need To Hear That It Makes Sense To Behave Decently Or To Help Others, To Place Common Interests Above Their Own, To Respect The Elementary Rules Of Human Coexistence.