I haven't read Schopenhauer yet. We are also limited here, by time.
You choose something, then you insist on being open to the openness of the world. You act. But then what, when the abyss opens up again - the emptiness, the loneliness - you touch that which keeps tripping up your life.
Kant already said it: think, then say it out loud (you act). That is the ethical principle. Then you say it, including everything that is unacceptable, that's why you suffer the consequences of not being accepted, people move away and you are left alone again. Honesty is dangerous. Who will you then call? You can only call your friend Loneliness, who is the only one who will not leave you, but also only friend you always want to avoid.
The hero speaks out, he is brave precisely because he suffers and is afraid.
There is a problem that Shunyamurti decribed as: Facing with emptiness ..."is the black hole that the ego isn’t strong enough to confront, and therefore would rather continue its vain fantasies of connections that aren’t real, and stay in a Peter Pan type of state, rather than to grow beyond the loneliness into the truth of what reality is."
I haven't read Schopenhauer yet. We are also limited here, by time.
You choose something, then you insist on being open to the openness of the world. You act. But then what, when the abyss opens up again - the emptiness, the loneliness - you touch that which keeps tripping up your life.
Dylan Evans in a blog (https://medium.com/@evansd66/the-immortal-life-of-ida-bauer-300093fb4040) talks about what a hero is all about: speaking honestly in public.
Kant already said it: think, then say it out loud (you act). That is the ethical principle. Then you say it, including everything that is unacceptable, that's why you suffer the consequences of not being accepted, people move away and you are left alone again. Honesty is dangerous. Who will you then call? You can only call your friend Loneliness, who is the only one who will not leave you, but also only friend you always want to avoid.
The hero speaks out, he is brave precisely because he suffers and is afraid.
There is a problem that Shunyamurti decribed as: Facing with emptiness ..."is the black hole that the ego isn’t strong enough to confront, and therefore would rather continue its vain fantasies of connections that aren’t real, and stay in a Peter Pan type of state, rather than to grow beyond the loneliness into the truth of what reality is."