How we can carry our burden.

Published: Nov. 4, 2022, 3:38 p.m.

I share some insights. At first I thought it was healing a disease, then it was healing a trauma. I realized it was healing this disconnect. Finally this unity of the opposites, this reversal to the opposite. Whatever you want to call it, this realization that it's a disconnect not just from ourselves, and from each other, from our community, but most importantly it's dissociation from our burden. The opposite is acceptance, is embracing our lot, the eternal return, amor fati. Healing the modern malaise. Solutions to the meaning crisis. Hope. Courage. Commitment, confidence and devotion. Faith in ourselves. Nietzsche and Zarathustra, Jung's Liber Novus, St John of the Cross's obscure night of the soul... We must learn to carry our burden, and that includes the other as well as the self.