Anandasa:Hat man seine Leidenschaften bis zum Tod nicht zum Erlöschen gebracht, dauern diese Leidenschaften weiter fort. Letzteres sehe ich persönlich als eher allegorisch an, weil tot ist tot. Aber andere sehen das eher religiös und für das Thema Wiedergeburt gibt es hier ja genügend Threads zum drin graben ;-).
Neulich zitierte ich aus David Brooks, The Road to Character:
ZitatThe job of the wise person is to swallow the frustration and just go on setting an example of caring and digging and diligence in their own lifes. What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what get transmitted.
Never forget that. The message is the person, perfected over lifetimes of effort that was set in motion by yet another wise person now hidden from the recipient by the dim mists of time. Life is much bigger than we think, cause and effect intertwined in a vast moral structure that keeps pushing us to do better, become better, even when we dwell in the most painful confused darkness.