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The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.
Open to Desire
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Anonymous asked:
hi sorry i have a question. how do you become a person. how do you develop the will to be a person. i have sadly proven unkillable
you have to be sincere. you have to stop being sad that you haven't been killed and take up the burden of loving yourself and taking care of yourself. and when I say love yourself I mean pretend you are an angel sent down by God for the purpose of loving and healing one specific person, yourself. and when I say take care of yourself I mean pretend you are an alien zookeeper and your only job is to look after a single human being in the Earth enclosure, you. after a few years of practicing this, you will develop the ability to like yourself and enjoy your own company, and you'll know enough about yourself to take it from there. I'm ordering you to do this, whether you have the "will" to do it or not, out of pure self-interest, because five years from now it will have made you good company and I prefer the human world to be populated with good companions. little lanterns against the inhospitable night of the age of Iron.
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We live in a mysterious world that does not fully explain itself. We occupy a time and a place that seemingly lies between two eternities. Nevertheless, through some unfathomable benediction beyond the known self, we have the power to create a life both within and beyond ourselves, to transfigure the image of the self, and to transcend a world not of our making into a world that we ourselves have created, given meaning to, and lived. There is an element of mystery to human origins and there is an element of the secret behind the true nature of the universe that we may never fully fathom; but there must also be a revelatory source of knowledge to enlighten the dark mysteries that surround us and there must be a corresponding means of perfection as the true path to fulfillment.
John Herlihy, Borderlands of the Spirit: Reflections on a Sacred Science of Mind