'But each type of human conduct, being the conduct of man in the world, can release for us simultaneously man, the world, and the relation which unites them, only on condition that we envisage these forms of contact as realities objectively apprehensible and not as subjective affects which disclose themselves only in the face of reflection.'
Chapter One: The Origin of Negation
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
So philosophy, it only took you thousands of years to get to a place tread by, supposedly, Siddhartha Gautama, Wittgenstein, and any bloke that says 'It is as it is'. But in this is further truth: You only find difference between yourself and the world around when you expend the energy to look for them. This is what, I think, makes the world so frightening and foreign to many in the current state.
What's more frightening and foreign is, finding your way back is as simple as allowing the world and your 'self' (Sartre would say 'consciousness') to rediscover each other. That place being always as near as the ground underfoot.
So take today (if you even got this far) and look at all the ways the world let's you in, continues your existence, and gives a place to lay one's head.
'If you like me, a-thank you...'
