Dear Christian AKA Pretty Gnostic Machine,
"...There is a part of me that experiences debilitating lows, that shouts a resounding “no” to life...
And a part of me that experiences exhilarating highs, that shouts a resounding “yes” to life."
I translate as:
I see myself in nothing!
I see myself in everything!
Welcome to a world of resistance-overcoming.
Who said the assimilation of Nature with Spirit was going to be easy or without contradiction?
Dialectical understanding entails struggle!
Or, as Hegel put it:
"Every activity of mind is nothing but a distinct mode of reducing what is external to the inwardness which mind itself is, and it is only by this reduction, by this idealization or assimilation, of what is external that it becomes and is mind.... This material, in being seized by the “I,” … loses its isolated, independent existence and receives a spiritual one. "
My struggle is now YOUR STRUGGLE my Pretty Gnostic Machine.