“ The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. ”
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
