By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.
Interpretation
Belief in the non-existent can bring it into reality through passion and desire.
This quote suggests that the power of belief can transcend the boundaries of reality. It implies that when one desires something deeply, even if it does not currently exist, this belief can manifest it into existence, illustrating the relationship between passion, desire, and creation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams and ambitions.
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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