In Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) Nietzsche says the spirit becomes a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion a child. The camel kneels to be loaded with what’s heaviest. In the loneliest desert the lion meets a dragon with a golden “thou shalt” shining on every scale, and answers it with “a sacred ‘No’ even to duty”. (Walter Kaufmann’s translation.)
Load the camel and walk it into the desert. Then roar. Then play.
You carry what you’re handed, then refuse what isn’t yours, but a no builds nothing: only play and a yes of your own make something new.
Ask yourself. What have you said no to lately, and what have you made with the space it left?
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