"Alongside the general miracle of being - both as a part of that miracle and as its protagonist, as a special reiteration of it and rebellious attempt to know, understand, control and transcend it - stands the miracle of the human spirit, of human existence. Into the infinite silence of the omnipresent order of Being, then there sounds the impassioned voice of the order of human freedom, of life, of spirit. The subtly structured world of meaningful and hopeful human life, opening new vistas of freedom and carrying man to a deeper experience of Being, the countless remarkable intellectual (mystical, religious, scientific) and moral system, that special way in which the order of Being both re-creates and, at the same time, lends its own meaning to mythology (in earlier times) and artistic creation (today, i.e., in the historical period), in short the way in which man becomes man in the finest sense of the word - all of this constitutes the 'order of life,' 'the order of the spirit,' 'the order of human work.' Together, it all constitutes an objectivized expression of that 'second creation of the world,' which is human existence.
I would say that this 'order of life' is a kind of 'legitimate son,' of the order of Being,' because it grows out of an indestructible faith in the latter's meaning and a fearless confrontation with its mystery."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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