“If a man can put his own ego out of the way and believe without a doubt, then he can enter a state of consciousness where he has no limitations, except those he imposes on himself.”
- Max Stirner Der Einzige und Sein Eigenthum (The Ego and its own) 1844
If you are into existentialism, ego, and such, ponder away…
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eigen // January 29, 2009 at 6:12 pm |
Great quote, I found that all of what Stirner told us is to centralize the I to a state of meditation. A grounded integrity to the deepest state of self consciousness. All around us is emptiness and at the same time fullness because the self posit himself to the highest degree of self conscious that he is him as unique and that he master all of what he creates with all the power he can get from himself. He warns us to not deviate ourselves from our unique creator and not to put beyond us our creatures. He told us not to become unconscious to put ourselves in a position of involuntary servitude. Once the slave have take conscious of is state of servitude he can choose to break off his chains. Or to continue to love his position as a follow servant laborer, exploitable peace of streak.
eigen // January 29, 2009 at 6:16 pm |
The nothingness he talks about is the self creation continually anew.