Friday, January 19, 2007
Human relations must be founded on passion, if not, the terror.
"A genuine personal life ought to be created as a work, as conscious history, and thus rescued from the impervious mechanisms that at present govern everyday life."
"...the pride of knowing passion itself, from the absolute humility, I should feel before it and before it alone. I shall not appeal to its most mysterious, its harshet decrees. It would be as if I were to try to stop the course of the world, by viture of some illusory power passion has over it. Or to deny that 'each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who IS better merely expresses this same world better than the others.'" -- Andre Breton (Hegel).
This ideal of a passionate life, a life created as a work, has an enormous attraction for me. Its utter lack, in my life, is very disconcerting. I envy or admire those people, who are many, creating their life even to some meager extent based on a passion, even if it is a hard, and sometimes hated path. It is not hard to live life without a passion, but it hard to live without it when you want it, and painfully feel its lack...
"...the pride of knowing passion itself, from the absolute humility, I should feel before it and before it alone. I shall not appeal to its most mysterious, its harshet decrees. It would be as if I were to try to stop the course of the world, by viture of some illusory power passion has over it. Or to deny that 'each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who IS better merely expresses this same world better than the others.'" -- Andre Breton (Hegel).
This ideal of a passionate life, a life created as a work, has an enormous attraction for me. Its utter lack, in my life, is very disconcerting. I envy or admire those people, who are many, creating their life even to some meager extent based on a passion, even if it is a hard, and sometimes hated path. It is not hard to live life without a passion, but it hard to live without it when you want it, and painfully feel its lack...
# posted by eric. : 12:36 PM
