“All life is a flux between these two aspects of the daimonic.”
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 123
Context: The daimonic is is obviously not an an entity but refers to a fundamental, archetypal function of human experience — an existential reality in modern man, and, as far as we know, in all men.
The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself. The daimonic becomes evil when it usurps the total self without regard to the integration of that self, or to the unique forms and desires of others and their need for integration. It then appears in excessive aggression, hostility, cruelty — the things about ourselves which horrify us most, and which we repress whenever we can or, more likely, project on others. But these are the reverse side of the same assertion which empowers our creativity. All life is a flux between these two aspects of the daimonic. We can repress the daimonic, but we cannot avoid the toll of apathy and the tendency toward later explosion which such repression brings in its wake.
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I wanted to stand much of that on its head.
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見《王明傳》
華夏歷史：命運多舛的時代：中華民國(大陸時期) (九) http://www.minghui-school.org/school/article/2005/12/29/51030.html
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ESOF (2010).
Source: The War of Art (2002), p. 13
“Between our two lives
there is also the life of
the cherry blossom.”