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Musik: All is welcome here von Deva Premal

 

If you can´t be with the one you love, love the one you are with. Each love affair is an open window to Tao, but don´t get stuck on the frame. The diamond thunderbolt. It is a sudden experience, with no preparation, no rehearsal, no discipline, no path. Suddenly you open your eyes as if a thunderbolt has hit you and the sleep of millions of years is broken. In that awakening you know the mystery of existence. You cannot love enlightenment, you cannot hate enlightenment. These are not possible ways of approaching enlightenment. You can be enlightened or not, there is no question of loving enlightenment or not loving enlightenment. And it is not enough to love the master because that may become a consolation: that you are with the master, you love the master, what else is needed? Loving the master has only one meaning -- that you open up to such a point that the master can hit, and cut like a sword all the barriers to your enlightenment. You will need someone else and you will have to trust because he is opening your heart or opening your brain and who knows what kind of man he is. But ordinarily you do trust a surgeon even though you do not know him. The function of the master is far more deep. It needs a very conscious love and trust on the disciple's side because the master is going to tear down all your personality and shatter all your mind habits to bring out the hidden flame with all its splendor. You don't have to love it. You will rejoice, you will dance, you will sing, you will share, you will now love all that surrounds you. No master can force anybody to be enlightened. No master can create a fetter for the disciple. No master will say, "Remain with me." It is the disciple's heart that wants to remain. It is not an order from the side of the master, it is the love from the side of the disciple. It is a great love affair, `the great matter'. Love takes you beyond good and evil. If you love, then don't bother about good and evil. The master is just like a raincloud, ready to shower. And the disciple is ready to receive -- open, with no windows closed, holding nothing back -- totally available. Whenever a disciple is totally available and the master is overflowing with his ecstasy, the Tao happens. The man of tao can only open the door. He wants you to get out by yourself, not to be dragged out, because dragging you out into freedom is not possible. Dragging you into slavery is possible; but dragging you out into freedom is not possible, nobody can do it. You will have to walk on your own feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3r4cv2uu98

Musik: Morning Glory from Anugama

A dream girl after all is a dream girl. You cannot find a woman on the earth comparable, as beautiful as your girl in the dream. It is your creation. It does not perspire, it does not need to use deodorants, it has no menstrual period. Nobody has ever heard that a girl in a dream was having her period. The girl in your dream never says, "Not today, I am suffering from a headache." She is always willing, more than willing. And your juiciness about life is always a kind of dependence. You have a beautiful man, or a woman -- you think life is so juicy. But even Cleopatra -- who is known to be the most beautiful woman who has walked on the earth -- within two, three days will be just an ordinary woman. All the juice will disappear soon, because a woman is after all a woman, and a man is after all a man. You will start fighting, quarreling, arguing, nagging, and you will wonder what happened to the juice.

You cannot drop anything if you don't have it. A beggar cannot say, "I have renounced the world." The fact is just the opposite: the world has renounced him. Only an emperor can say, "I have renounced the world" -- and it makes sense. Slavery disappeared not because slaves revolted against it; there is no instance of slaves revolting. Slavery died because the people who were enslaving other people found better ways -- servants. You are not purchased; hence it is not an investment. If you die, you die; it is not a loss to the owner. He pays you, but he has no concern for your body, for your health, for your family. This was far better.

Musik: Caffeine for Sarah´s strokes von Omkar

Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people -- people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of -- and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world. All dualities are part of the materialist world, part of the mind of man. But unless you get a little higher than matter and mind -- which is again a duality... So Taoism doesn't teach materialism, Taoism doesn't teach spiritualism. Taoism teaches a synthesis, something which is higher than both and which has no opposite to it. And this is the criterion: if you reach to a quality which has no opposite to it, then you can be certain you have attained something in your life. Traditional gurus everywhere are against progress. The reason is that every progressive statement, every new discovery challenges their scriptures. And the problem is, even if one thing in their scriptures -- which they are calling holy, written by God himself -- is wrong, that creates great problems. That means God can write wrong things. That also means that if one statement is wrong, perhaps other statements may also be wrong. It creates suspicion -- and the traditional priests depend on faith: any doubt is dangerous. And all progress depends on doubt, all science depends on doubt. So there is no meeting ground between doubt and faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlI8qrwFYRw

A classical chinese garden reveals as a intimate „garden of ease“ the Taoist symbolism behind the placing of gnarled pine trees, winding covered pathways and ancient limestone formations.

A youth came to the Zen Master Huang Po and said: "I have attained serenity." "Why have you come here then?" Huang asked. "Go, away, for here I treat only those who are untranquil." The youth found it impossible to leave for he felt Huang Po to be serene in quite a different way. He said, "No. I not go. Allow me to stay here a few days. Huang Po said, "There is no permission for tranquil people to stay here. Go, ponder -- are you really tranquil? I do not feel you could have undertaken this long journey of 200 miles, just to tell me that you have become tranquil; and if you have, the matter is finished. May you really become tranquil! But I suggest you go outside and ponder over the question." The youth began to step out of the room but Huang stops him: "Stop! There is no need to go out. Come back. If you have to ponder whether you are serene or not, then you better come in. Your hesitation has given you away. The fact that you are going to ponder whether you are restless or not, is restlessness enough. Wherever there is choice, there is restlessness. You are definitely restless and I can be of use to you. But only when you understand your mind's clever deception, can I be of any help to you."

There are always two ways to any problem. Now for instance, it is sunny outside. One way is, that I use the Umbrella to keep the sun away. In that case, I treat the sun as my enemy and I prevent its rays from reaching me. There is another way also -- I can make my body so strong and healthy that it can withstand the rays of the sun. Lao Tzu would say: "Make your bodies strong. Then you will feel the sun to be your friend for it is never so sunny as to be unbearable to a healthy body. The sun seems a foe only to weak and unhealthy bodies." A new Science will be born -- in accordance with Lao Tzu's way of thinking. And if we understand Lao Tzu thoroughly Lao Tzu implies the Eastern mind -- the Eastern way of thinking. Aristotle means the Western mind -- the Western way of thinking.

Nicht alles zu begreifen steht dem kleinen Geiste an, weil diese winz´ge Waage solche Last nicht tragen kann. Hier verstehe ich nicht nur jedermanns kleinen Geist (schließlich nutzen wir ja nur eine verschwindend kleine Prozentzahl unseres geistig tatsächlich vorhandenen Potentials), sondern auch den kleinen, feinen Geist und Verstand der Kinder. Kinder möchten gerne alles verstehen und begreifen, aber all dies würde sie erschlagen, deshalb ist ihre Entwicklung ein langsamer, aber beständiger Prozess. Wer ein Warum zu leben hat, der erträgt fast jedes Wie. Wenn man über die Gesetze von Ursache und Wirkung  Bescheid weiß und erkennt, warum die Dinge so gekommen sind, wie sie sind, ist die Konsequenz und die Auswirkung auch leichter zu ertragen. Wer andere kennt, ist klug, wer sich selber kennt, ist weise. Wer andere besiegt, hat Kraft; wer sich selbst besiegt, ist stark. Dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen, außer dass es unsere schwierigste Aufgabe ist, unser ungesundes Ego in den Griff zu bekommen (= Selbstkontrolle über Bewusstsein und Unterbewusstsein, ein fast unmögliches Unterfangen). Du kannst dein Leben nicht verlängern – nur vertiefen. Nicht dem Leben mehr Jahre, aber den Jahren mehr Leben geben. Zähle das Leben nicht nach Tagen und Jahren. Zähle die Stunden, da der Engel dich berührte. Unsere lineare Zeit ist uns stets zu wenig, immer läuft sie uns davon, die Zeit als Maß aller Dinge, dabei sollte doch nur jeder einzelne Augenblick zählen, indem wir uns rundum wohl gefühlt haben, glücklich und selbstzufrieden waren oder uns verbunden fühlten. Die  Mutter sagt zu dem Kind, dessen Katze gestorben ist: „Wenn wir uns darauf einlassen, zu lieben, dann müssen wir uns auch auf Abschiede einlassen. Wollten wir etwa nicht lieben oder geliebt werden, nur um keine Abschiede zu erleben?“

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6733596013688235740&ei=V6CkSd_uJqf22QKUtKBZ&q=

Der Geist des chinesisch-taoistischen Wuwei evoziert eine dezidierte Gegenutopie zur futuristischen Technik- und Fortschrittseuphorie: „Nicht handeln; wie das weiße Wasser schwach und folgsam sein“, lautet ein Zitat aus dem Tao Te King. Schwach sein, ertragen, sich fügen hieße der reine Weg. Angeschmiegt an die Ereignisse, Wasser an Wasser, angeschmiegt an die Flüsse, das Land, immer Bruder und Schwester, Liebe hieße der reine Weg. Vergegenwärtigt man sich den realgeschichtlichen Hintergrund des waffenstarrenden Imperialismus, so enthält dies, ohne selbst eine didaktisch griffige „Lösung“ zu offerieren, eine eminent zeitkritische Dimension! Sie bestimmte den Taoismus im übrigen von Anfang an: Der Aufruf der Taoisten zu einer Rückkehr zur „Ursprünglichkeit“ und „Einfachheit“, zum „Weg der Natur“, zu einem Leben also im Einklang mit dem Tao, war selbst ja der Ausdruck einer zivilisations- und kulturkritischen Gegenbewegung zu einer als zerrissen erlebten Umbruchzeit, die ihre Einheit längst verloren hatte. Die taoistische Maxime, dass die Eroberung der Welt durch Handeln misslingt – „wer handelt, verliert sie; wer festhält, verliert sie“, -- bricht sich an der Erfahrung vom Zynismus der Macht, die sich über das welt- und lebenachtende Prinzip hinwegsetzt und die Utopie des Nicht-Eingreifens ad absurdum führt. Die Gewaltlosen werden vergewaltigt, ihnen bleibt nur die Wahl, selber zur Gewalt zu greifen, zu widerstehen oder unterzugehen. Stille sein, nicht widerstreben, kann man das denn?

Als Eugen Herrigel bei seinem japanischen Zen-Meister die Kunst des Bogenschießens lernte und nach Jahren noch nicht „richtig“ schoss, fand der Lehrer eine scheinbar unverständliche Begründung: „Die rechte Kunst“, rief der Meister aus, „ist absichtslos! Je hartnäckiger Sie dabei bleiben, das Abschießen des Pfeils erlernen zu wollen, damit Sie das Ziel ganz sicher treffen, umso ferner das andere rückt. Es steht Ihnen im Wege, dass Sie einen viel zu willigen Willen haben. Was Sie nicht tun, das, meinen Sie, geschehe nicht.“ Als Herrigel nach Jahren endlich einen wirklichen Schuss zustande brachte, erklärte der Meister, was geschehen war: „Sie verweilten diesmal völlig selbstvergessen und absichtslos in höchster Spannung; da fiel der Schuss von Ihnen ab wie eine reife Frucht.“ Was Herrigel hier einen Schritt weiterbrachte, war nach den Worten des Lehrers seine Absichtslosigkeit und damit Selbstvergessenheit. Das ist ein entscheidendes Stichwort: Selbstvergessenheit. Denn wer sich selbst vergisst, der verfolgt auch keine Absicht mehr. Um wirklich zu verstehen, was hier gemeint ist, müssen wir den Begriff des „Selbst“ etwas differenzierter betrachten. Natürlich ist es die „Person“ Herrigel, welche den Bogen spannt und schließlich die Sehne loslässt. Aber diese Person denkt nicht mehr in den Kategorien des Ich: Ich muss! Ich darf! Ich soll! Mache ich es (meinem Meister) recht? usw. In vielen Menschen bleibt das Bedürfnis nach Aufmerksamkeit ebenso stark wie in ihrer frühen Kindheit; in anderen ist es der Hunger nach Zuneigung; wiederum in anderen das Bedürfnis nach Bestätigung oder die Furcht vor Missbilligung; und jeder dieser Faktoren ist die Quelle und Triebfeder der gesamten Persönlichkeit. Diese Analyse steht in völligem Einklang damit, dass wir uns vom inneren Sich-Richten befreien sollten sowie damit, dass uns die vorgefassten Bilder im Weg stehen. Und sie drängt uns zu der Einsicht, dass eine der schädlichsten Motivationen, die in vielen von uns unerkannt fortbestehen, die Sehnsucht nach Zustimmung, Beifall und Billigung ist. Wenn wir uns davon trennen, trennen wir uns von dem, was die spirituellen Traditionen Ich nennen. Absichtslos heißt, sich selbst vergessen.

In the night of March 21, 1953, while still a student at the University of Saugar, Osho attained complete enlightenment. He describes the event:

„That night another reality opened ist door, another dimension became available. Suddenly it was there – the other reality, the separate reality, the really real, or whatsoever you want to call it. Call it God, call it truth, call it Dharma, call it Tao or whatever you will.

That night I became empty and became full. I became nonexistential und became existence. That night I died and was reborn.“

While continuing with the boundaries of his academic career, Osho began zu travel and speak to people about his experience and the teachings which grew out of it. He was both an eloquent speaker and advocate for controversial religious views. Finally in 1966 he resigned his university post and became a full-time spiritual leader. He traveled throughout India from his home in Jabalpur for several years before moving to Bombay in 1969 with a small group of his most dedicated disciples. Around 1970 the first Westerners discovered him and began to come to his Bombay apartment headquarters. Then in 1974 he purchased a site for an ashram in Poona and founded the Rajneesh Foundation (now the Osho Commune International).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk7HYgFR1Bk

Ist ein geliebter Mensch fern von uns,

wächst unsere Zuneigung zu ihm.

Liebe bedeutet, auch gönnen zu können. Wer seinen Partner im Käfig hält, wird ihn beim ersten Türöffnen verlieren.

Jemand wollte den Sand nicht verlieren, weil er so kostbar war. Er presste ihn ganz fest in seine Hand. Der Sand rieselte durch die Finger und war nicht aufzuhalten. Lässt man den Sand jedoch offen auf der Hand liegen, bleibt er einem erhalten.

Genauso ist es auch in der Beziehung. Lässt man seinem Partner alle Freiheiten, hat er keinen Nachholbedarf und wird auch nicht bei der nächstbesten Gelegenheit fremdgehen oder türmen.

Wenn unsere erfahrbare Welt nicht so ist wie in der Vision vom Paradies, muss normalerweise das utopische, das unrealistische Bild der Realität Platz machen. Macht man sich aber gerade das Bild vom Paradies zum Maßstab für die Wirklichkeit, um neu zu ihr in Beziehung zu treten, dann vermittelt das Bild einen ver-rückten Blick auf die Welt.

Die heile Welt ist etwas, das wir als Realität hier und heute nicht kennen; das heißt: Dieses Bild ist mit Sehnsucht verbunden. Es ist wichtig, dass wir uns an dem orientieren, was unsere Vision ist; denn unsere Träume und Visionen sind ja der Motor unseres Handelns.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-610829313290439434&ei=B1TeSOPrHpbC2gKE2YShCw&q=

Lernen beginnt und endet damit, dass Lernende erfahren: Sie lernen.

Wir leben in einem vollkommenen Universum. Alles, was geschieht, hat einen tieferen Sinn und soll uns etwas lehren oder uns aufwachen lassen.

Wenn wir unsere Verantwortung vergessen, bewusst zu sein und auf unsere Gedanken zu achten, werden wir in unserem Leben sicher viele Schwierigkeiten verursachen.

Wenn wir die üblichen besorgten, stressigen oder depressiven Gedanken unseren Verstand beherrschen lassen, verursachen wir Leid in uns.

Wenn wir vergessen, uns immer wieder neu für die Liebe und die Verbindung zu unserem Herzen zu entscheiden, verlieren wir die Verbindung zur Essenz, die das Leben so lebenswert macht.

Es hilft, die sorgenvollen Gedanken zur Ruhe zu bringen und die Aufmerksamkeit in das Herz und in den gegenwärtigen Augenblick zu lenken. Wir leiden nicht so sehr unter dem, was in diesem Moment geschieht, sondern unter den Sorgen über das, was in der Zukunft passieren könnte. Du spürst Erleichterung, wenn du dich auf deinen Atem in der Gegenwart konzentrierst und dich mehr auf dein Herz als auf deinen Kopf ausrichtest.

Deine Gedanken bestimmen deine persönliche Realität und so kannst du deine Gedanken einsetzen, um diese Welt positiv zu verändern.

Jeder kann die Gedanken, die ihm Angst machen, loslassen und sich auf sein Herz und auf das Jetzt einstimmen, in dem Liebe gefunden und geteilt werden kann.

Jeder kann sich einfach mehr bewusst darüber werden, wer er wirklich ist, wie wir alle miteinander in Liebe verbunden sind und wie wir diese Welt zu einem Paradies machen können.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g-qhB6JUI

 Friede ist eine Qualität, die zuallererst unserem eigenen Herzen entspringt und von dort genährt wird. Wie die großen spirituellen Lehrer schon immer gelehrt haben, ist eine friedvolle Gesellschaft eine Gesellschaft, in der die Individuen gelernt haben, auf ihre Gedanken zu achten, so dass sie inneren Frieden in ihrem Geist und Herzen tragen. Frieden und Liebe entspringen derselben inneren Quelle. Wenn wir zu einer friedvollen Gesellschaft beitragen wollen, müssen wir unseren Verstand beherrschen lernen, damit Frieden und Liebe in unserem eigenen Leben existieren. Dann wird unser innerer Frieden ganz natürlich nach außen strahlen und andere Herzen berühren, und wir werden eine immer friedvollere Gesellschaft werden. Frieden entsteht in uns, wenn wir die Angst loslassen, deshalb ist es das Wichtigste, zu lernen, wie wir frei von Angst werden können.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g-qhB6JUI

Two carvings of labyrinths in Rocky Valley, between Boscastle and Tintagel in north Cornwall, have been the subject of much discussion over the years, their origins variously ascribed to the Bronze Age, the early Christian period and even the 18th century. When an earth mysteries enthusiast visited the site, he took digital photographs of the two labyrinths. On returning home, he downloaded the photographs onto his computer and noticed a third carving above the two previously known rock-cut patterns. The hitherto unnoticed labyrinth is much fainter than the other two, leading to suggestions that the two bolder images were re-cut over existing carvings in relatively modern times. An alternative suggestion is that the two known labyrinths were copied from the much older, worn carving. All three labyrinths appear to be classic ‘Cretan’ in style, with seven-fold paths and left-handed entrances, although the ‘new’ carving is indistinct and its details somewhat difficult to establish. The recently identified labyrinth was described as “faint but unmistakable”.

A mosaic floor, one of the finest yet uncovered from the ancient world, has been found in the ruined city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. It dates from about AD 260 and shows the hero Bellerophon, mounted on Pegasus, killing a chimera. He is wearing a widerimmed Roman helmet with a red streamer and is flanked by two eagles bearing wreaths of victory. Unusually, he has trousers and an embroidered tunic, the costume of Palmyra’s Sassanian Persian neighbours, and an opensleeved coat of the sort worn by Palmyrene aristocrats. Dozens of late Roman pavements representing Bellerophon are known from the western provinces, but this is the only one found in the Near East. Soon the model would be borrowed by Christian painters to show St George slaying the dragon. St George was allegedly a Roman soldier martyred in Palestine in about AD 303 and the Bellerophon design provided a ready-made image to illustrate his emerging legend. The chimera represented Palmyra’s Sassanian attackers, who were defeated by Odainat, a local ruler in AD 259 in an otherwise disastrous struggle. After Odainat’s death in 267, his wife, the celebrated Zenobia, seized control of an area extending as far as Egypt, but was eventually captured by the Emperor Aurelian and imprisoned in a villa in Rome. A second panel in the mosaic, which measures some 30ft (9m) by 18ft (5.4m) but occupies only part of a grand dining room in a house on Palmyra’s main colonnaded street, shows a mounted archer dressed like Bellerophon shooting a tiger, while another is trampled by his horse.
The pattern on the stripes identifies them as Hyrcanian tigers, which until recently lived on the Persian shores of the Caspian Sea. They symbolise the defeated Sassanian enemy.

Nearly everybody believes in UFOs, including especially the debunkers. Everybody believes that some people report UFOs, to start with, and only then does the argument begin. Some want to file all the reports in the hoax file, some in hallucination, some in Alien Spaceship, some in electromagnetic oddity, some in paranormal, some in time-machines from the future, some in sundogs, some in Famous Lost Weather Balloons, etc., etc. Very few have the sophistication to think that some flying whangdoodles belong in one category and others in two or three other categories. Only the Totally Damned, i.e., agnostics and post-modernists, file some of them in - Unidentified. I find it humorous that so few of us will accept that some Unidentified gizmos must get filed in Unidentified for now and maybe for a long time, maybe forever...

I always try to formulate my sentences in terms of probability and often include the percentage of belief I give to an idea - about 0.0000001 % to the Virgin Birth of that kid from Nazareth, about 99.9% to the Seoond Law of Thermodynamics, somewhere between 2% and 98% for most other things. People who claim 100% certitude seem, in my view, a frantic crew of True Believers, trying to bulishit themselves even harder than they try to bulishit you and me. This applies especially to the kind of True Believers who call themselves Skeptics. I'm sure you can guess some of the gents I mean.

When we believe something for a long time, we become more and more committed to that idea. If evidence surfaces that disabuses the long-held notion, we resist this and try to continue believing.

Dr. Rainer König (58), Biologe am Naturkunde-Museum in Berlin, fand im letzten Sommer den wohl auf Neu Guinea kleinsten Frosch. Er mißt gerade mal 20 mm (vom Kopf bis zum Po), hat braun-gelb gefleckte Haut und kurze, quäkende Paarungsrufe. Dieser Neue gehört zur Gattung der Albericus-Frösche.  Albericus ist lateinisch und abgeleitet von Alberich, dem Zwerg aus der Germanischen Mythologie. Alberich konnte, den Erzählungen zufolge, unter einer Tarnkappe seine Gestalt verändern. Dadurch konnte er sich auch sehr gut verstecken. Den Fröschen ermöglicht ihre Winzigkeit eben, sich gut im Dickicht des Urwaldes zu verstecken.

THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY HAPPINESS? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE. BUT MY HAPPINESS SHOULD JUSTIFY EXISTENCE ITSELF!'

THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY REASON? DOES IT LONG FOR KNOWLEDGE AS THE LION FOR ITS FOOD? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE!'

THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY VIRTUE? IT HAS NOT YET DRIVEN ME MAD! HOW TIRED I AM OF MY GOOD AND MY EVIL! IT IS ALL POVERTY AND DIRT AND MISERABLE EASE!....

THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY, `WHAT GOOD IS MY PITY? IS NOT PITY THE CROSS UPON WHICH HE WHO LOVES MAN IS NAILED? BUT MY PITY IS NO CRUCIFIXION!'
HAVE YOU EVER SPOKEN THUS? HAVE YOU EVER CRIED THUS? AH, THAT I HAD HEARD YOU CRYING THUS!

IT IS NOT YOUR SIN, BUT YOUR MODERATION THAT CRIES TO HEAVEN, YOUR VERY MEANNESS IN SINNING CRIES TO HEAVEN!

WHERE IS THE LIGHTNING TO LICK YOU WITH ITS TONGUE? WHERE IS THE MADNESS, WITH WHICH YOU SHOULD BE CLEANSED?

BEHOLD, I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN: HE IS THIS LIGHTNING, HE IS THIS MADNESS!....
MAN IS A ROPE, FASTENED BETWEEN ANIMAL AND SUPERMAN -- A ROPE OVER AN ABYSS.

A DANGEROUS GOING-ACROSS, A DANGEROUS WAYFARING, A DANGEROUS LOOKING-BACK, A DANGEROUS SHUDDERING AND STAYING-STILL.

WHAT IS GREAT IN MAN IS THAT HE IS A BRIDGE AND NOT A GOAL; WHAT CAN BE LOVED IN MAN IS THAT HE IS A GOING-ACROSS AND A DOWN-GOING.

I LOVE THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LIVE EXCEPT THEIR LIVES BE A DOWN-GOING, FOR THEY ARE THOSE WHO ARE GOING ACROSS.

I LOVE THE GREAT DESPISERS, FOR THEY ARE THE GREAT VENERATORS AND ARROWS OF LONGING FOR THE OTHER BANK.

I LOVE THOSE WHO DO NOT FIRST SEEK BEYOND THE STARS FOR REASONS TO GO DOWN AND BE SACRIFICES: BUT WHO SACRIFICE THEMSELVES TO THE EARTH, THAT THE EARTH MAY ONE DAY BELONG TO THE SUPERMAN.

I LOVE HIM WHO LIVES FOR KNOWLEDGE AND WHO WANTS KNOWLEDGE THAT ONE DAY THE SUPERMAN MAY LIVE. AND THUS HE WILLS HIS OWN DOWNFALL....
I LOVE HIM WHO LOVES HIS VIRTUE: FOR VIRTUE IS WILL TO DOWNFALL AND AN ARROW OF LONGING....

I LOVE HIM WHO DOES NOT WANT TOO MANY VIRTUES. ONE VIRTUE IS MORE VIRTUE THAN TWO, BECAUSE IT IS MORE OF A KNOT FOR FATE TO CLING TO....

I LOVE HIM WHO IS ASHAMED WHEN THE DICE FALL IN HIS FAVOUR AND WHO THEN ASKS: AM I THEN A CHEAT? -- FOR HE WANTS TO PERISH.

I LOVE HIM WHO THROWS GOLDEN WORDS IN ADVANCE OF HIS DEEDS AND ALWAYS PERFORMS MORE THAN HE PROMISED: FOR HE WILLS HIS OWN DOWNFALL.

I LOVE HIM WHO JUSTIFIES THE MEN OF THE FUTURE AND REDEEMS THE MEN OF THE PAST: FOR HE WANTS TO PERISH BY THE MEN OF THE PRESENT.

I LOVE HIM WHO CHASTISES HIS GOD BECAUSE HE LOVES HIS GOD: FOR HE MUST PERISH BY THE ANGER OF HIS GOD.

I LOVE HIM WHOSE SOUL IS DEEP EVEN IN ITS ABILITY TO BE WOUNDED, AND WHOM EVEN A LITTLE THING CAN DESTROY: THUS HE IS GLAD TO GO OVER THE BRIDGE....

I LOVE ALL THOSE WHO ARE LIKE HEAVY DROPS FALLING SINGLY FROM THE DARK CLOUD THAT HANGS OVER MANKIND: THEY PROPHESY THE COMING OF THE LIGHTNING AND AS PROPHETS THEY PERISH.

BEHOLD, I AM THE PROPHET OF THE LIGHTNING AND A HEAVY DROP FROM THE CLOUD: BUT THIS LIGHTNING IS CALLED SUPERMAN.

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.

Zarathustra continues to talk to the audience, which consists only of the blind and the deaf and the heartless. But his love and his compassion is such that he does not ask them to be worthy to understand him.