Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself.
Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting did the world once seem to me (Thus Spake Zarathustra: Backworldsmen)
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Being absorbed in something other than self is probably ideal.
ReplyDeleteDon't think F.N. saw it like that.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this what he means when he say to look away from your own suffering. Also, he did write in TSZ 'Pain is also a joy, curse is also a blessing, night is also a sun...'
ReplyDeleteIn the quote I used and the chapter I address no, don't think so -
ReplyDeleteThe sick and perishing- it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth! From their misery they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for them. Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness!"
Yes, but that was his 'anti-Christian' stuff, in other parts when he is engaging with his own notion of the Ubermensch - the going down - etc. he was acknowledging that we need to look at things from a different perspective in order to understand that all experiences are to be valued
ReplyDeleteAnti Christian writing is difficult for me to engage without judgement, but that is the context for the quote and image. As for the rest, a load bearing spirit does some heavy lifting yes.
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