Life seems as apt to break as to enlighten us...
Life seems as apt to break as to enlighten us. This agony, through which we see some possibility, We experience more as sorrow, than insight. Albert Camus begins “The Myth of Sisyphus”— “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...suicide.” Human longing for unity and reason; the inability of the world to deliver. “The absurd,” he wrote, “is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” Camus rejected suicide and leaps of faith, both of which he thought denied one side or the other of this truth. In “Man's Search for Meaning,” Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, said— “...each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” Frankl said we experience meaning— “by creating a work or doing a deed; by experiencing something or encountering someone; a...