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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

The misery of me and not the tree.


“Man is so great that his greatness appears even in knowing himself to be miserable.

A tree has no sense of its misery.

It is true that to know we are miserable is to be miserable; but to know we are miserable is also to be great.  Thus all of the miseries of man prove his grandeur; they are the miseries of a dignified person, the miseries of a monarch.

What can this incessant craving and this impotence of attainment mean, unless there was once a happiness belonging to a man, of which only the faintest trace remain, in that void which he attempts to fill with everything within his reach?”  Blaise Pascal, Pensees

…to know we are miserable.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to the misery of me and not the tree.