silence shared in words
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Will and Desire The Golden Future #5
Recently
you spoke about the will to power.
You explained the importance of having this will,
this longing, to become a master over one's self.
You also often declare
that every desire is the basic reason for man's frustration.
Can you please explain the difference between will and desire?
Gyan Saahaba,
the difference between
will and desire
is great,
although they appear almost similar.
Desire is always
for things.
More money,
more prestige,
more respectability,
more knowledge,
more virtue,
a better place in the afterlife
these are all desires.
Desires
can be millions,
because there are millions of things in the world
which can become objects of desire.
A desire always needs an object
Will
is not objective;
it does not want
something else to be added to it.
Will is simply
your very life force,
which wants to assert itself
in its totality,
in its
wholeness
to bring all the flowers that are hidden in you.
to be yourself.
The will knows only one thing
and that is
you
and your golden future.
You,
right now, are only seeds.
But you can become
great trees,
reaching to the stars.
Vincent van Gogh,
one of the most significant Dutch painters,
was also thought of just like Nietzsche — a madman
He also had to live in a madhouse,
and he was not a harmful man;
his paintings were just not according to the ideas of people
Strange, in this world you are not even free
to paint something according to your own idea,
which is not harming anybody.
He had painted his trees
so tall
that stars were left far behind
— they go above the stars.
Naturally,
people used to ask him , "This is sheer madness.
Where have you seen these trees
going beyond the stars?"
And what
was always his answer
is immensely significant.
He used to say,
"To me,
trees represent the will of the earth
The earth is trying to reach beyond the stars,
and you will see one day
that the earth has succeeded.
It is just the beginning,
that's why you don't see the trees that high
But I can see far away in the future."