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Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Thus did my wise longing
Identifier
003823
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Thus spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Thus did my wise longing, born in the mountains, cry and laugh in me; a wild wisdom, verily - my great pinion-rustling longing!
And oft did it carry me off and up and away and in the midst of laughter; then flew I quivering like an arrow with sun-intoxicated rapture –
Out into distant futures, which no dream hath yet seen into warmer souths than ever sculptor conceived - where gods in their dancing are ashamed of all clothes:
Where all becoming seemed to me dancing of Gods, and wantoning of Gods, and the world unloosed and unbridled and fleeing back to itself –
As an eternal self-fleeing and re-seeking of one another of many Gods, as the blessed self-contradicting, recommuning, and refraternising with one another of many Gods –
Where all time seemed to me a blessed mockery of moments, where necessity was freedom itself, which played happily with the goad of freedom –
Where I also found again mine old devil and arch-enemy, the spirit of gravity, and all that it created: constraint, law, necessity and consequence and purpose and will and good and evil –
For must there not be that which is danced over, danced beyond?
Must there not, for the sake of the nimble, the nimblest - be moles and clumsy dwarfs?The source of the experience
Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmConcepts, symbols and science items
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Lead poisoningLoneliness and isolation
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicOpium
Suppressing memory