Monday, December 1, 2014

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground.
..."the heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment.  

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real......

What then shall we choose?  Weight or lightness?"

1 comment:

Sugar said...

Is this about that which we will not speak of until tomorrow?

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