Longing Is The Agony Of The Nearness

We Should Never Allow Our Fears Or The Expectations Of Others To Set The Frontiers Of Our Destiny.

Why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing? That Is The Question. Presumably It Is Not Arbitrary Question, "why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing"- This Is Obviously The First Of All Questions. Of Course It Is Not The First Question In The Chronological Sense [...] And Yet, We Are Each Touched Once, Maybe Even Every Now And Then, By The Concealed Power Of This Question, Without Properly Grasping What Is Happening To Us. In Great Despair, For Example, When All Weight Tends To Dwindle Away From Things And The Sense Of Things Grows Dark, The Question Looms.

Being Is Only Being For Dasein.

If I Take Death Into My Life, Acknowledge It, And Face It Squarely, I Will Free Myself From The Anxiety Of Death And The Pettiness Of Life - And Only Then Will I Be Free To Become Myself.

And So Man, As Existing Transcendence Abounding In And Surpassing Toward Possibilities, Is A Creature Of Distance. Only Through The Primordial Distances He Establishes Toward All Being In His Transcendence Does A True Nearness To Things Flourish In Him.