Zarathustra, the Laughing Prophet

Zarathustra, the Laughing Prophet: Talks on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (v. 2)

Life is pilgrimage. There is no end. You're coming but you never come The earth and the sky do not meet anywhere. You get to the point where the horizon was and it will have receded further. The distance between you and the horizon will always be the same without any change. This is the beauty of life that continues to grow that knows no end that continues to live and knows no death. Life only knows eternity. Seekers have a union in friendship. Nobody is trying to mold you according to certain ideals. You are accepted as you are, you are loved as you are and thus you are nurtured by all your companions with their friendship and tenderness. Everyone is animated with each other. Being alone you can feel discouraged because the search is the field of the unknown and towards the end it will be the field of the unknowable. It's good to have companions there will be dark nights. I remember a very famous Persian song in which there are some lines that say: The night is dark, sing a little louder, dance a little more madly, you don't know when the dawn will come. When there are many this force can help even the weakest. You can sing loudly. Dance intensely because who knows when dawn will come? Zarathustra divides the evolution of consciousness into three symbols: the camel, the lion and the child. The camel is an obedient beast of burden ready to be enslaved. He can never say no. In the consciousness of the camel there is always a need for someone to guide him, he cannot trust himself, he has no courage. The lion is the beginning of a sacred No is a yearning for freedom to destroy prisons. The lion does not need any leader, it is self-sufficient, it is a tremendous effort to break the chains, but even the lion is not the highest peak, the highest peak is when the lion goes through a metamorphosis and becomes a child. The child is trust, it is not obedience or disobedience... it is a Sacred Yes.