We are buds on a single tree — what do we know of what can become of us in the interest of the tree! But we have a consciousness as if we wanted to be and should be everything, a fantasy of ‘ego’ and everything ‘non-ego.’ Cease feeling ourselves to be such fantastical ego! Learn step by step to throw off the reputed individual! Discover the errors of the ego! Realize egoism as error! Certainly do not construct altruism as the opposite! That would be the love of the other reputed individuals! No! Get beyond ‘me’ and ‘you’! Perceive cosmically! — Nietzsche, The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Joyful Science (Spring 1881–Summer 1882) Poor Nietzsche is temperamentally incapable of serenity. Even when he approaches self-dissolution, he does it like a man waving a sword with his hair on fire. The ego may be an error, but by God, it will be destroyed heroically. A Buddhist monk might say, “Observe the arising and passing away of the self.”…
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