we are all one!!!

in one •  8 years ago  (edited)

hello everyone, today i would like to share this with y'all
In a magnificent essay on 'The Foundation of Morality', by the great philosopher Schopenhauer.
How is it, he asks, that an individual can so forget himself and his own safety that he will put himself and his life in jeopardy to save another from death or pain—as though that other’s life were his own, that other’s danger his own? Such a one is then acting, Schopenhauer answers, out of an instinctive recognition of the truth that he and that other in fact are one. He has been moved not from the lesser, secondary knowledge of himself as separate from others, but from an immediate experience of the greater, truer truth, that we are all one in the ground of our being. Schopenhauer’s name for this motivation is “compassion, and he identifies it as the one and only inspiration of inherently moral action. It is founded, in his view, in a metaphysically valid insight. For a moment one is selfless, boundless, without ego."
We are all one. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give~ WC
So whoever is reading this,please remember to give. It could be just a simple reminder that you are there for them or a gesture to the ones that you love . have a good day :)

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