"Orientation towards Being as a state of mind can also be understood as faith: a person oriented toward Being intrinsically believes in life, in the world, in morality, in the meaning of things and in himself. His relationship to life is informed by hope, wonder, humility and a spontaneous respect for its mysteries. He does not judge the meaning of his efforts merely by their manifest successes, but first of all by their 'worth in themselves' (i.e. by their worth against the background of the absolute horizon). In this general sense, however, believers are all those who do not surrender to their existence-in-the-world, regardless of whether they acknowledge a God, a religion or an ideology, and even regardless of whether they admit or deny that there is a transcendental dimension to their way of existence-in-the-world. The state of mind that has given into existence-in-the-world is, on the contrary, a state of total resignation (regardless of how it disguises itself). Somewhere in the depths of his spirit, man feels that nothing matters. He is concerned for nothing but his purely 'worldly' interests, which are his sole responsibility, and he behaves morally only insofar as, and only when and where, it is expedient to do so, when his actions are visible, for instance."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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