"Perhaps it is sufficiently clear that the experience of Being, as I mean it here, is not just a philosophical thesis that can be accepted or rejected with no further existential implications....By this experience I mean something essentially different and more profound: an intrinsic longing to arouse, through the conduct of one's existence in the world, one's own hidden, slumbering, forgotten and betrayed being and through this being - which is anchored in the integrity of 'absolute Being' and separated from the 'I' that is constituted from it, and to which that 'I' is intrinsically oriented - to touch once again that fullness and integrity of Being, at a distance, perhaps, but fully aware this time; through that "counterpoint" of one's own being and that of the world, to reach toward the principle unity of Being; to accept this unity and this 'uniqueness' as a binding system of order and the final vanishing point of all of its existence in the world, and to relate to it as the absolute horizon of all one's horizons."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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