"The highest phase, as it were, of this 'contemplation' is my final and best mood. It is difficult to characterize concisely and accurately; it is a sense of general and fundamental joy that I am alive, that I am, that my life - in spite of everything - has meaning, that I have done some good, that there are people who know me, understand me, share with me - though it may only be at a distance and in general terms - my fate. They know what I want and why I do what I do, they think about me, worry about me, wish me well and - perhaps the most important and wonderful thing of all - they are fond of me. It is an experience of the manifestation - the vivid presence - of an otherwise hidden, yet all-determining dimension of the spirit, that is, the presence of faith, hope and the profound conviction that there is a 'meaning'...I don't have this mood often at all, but it is very useful: it fills me with strength and energy and courage, substances I need desperately."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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