The fountainhead of inspiration [Quote]

I ran across this quote today from the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (wikipedia) and just love it.

Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher and theologian, lived during the first half of the 1800′s, is considered to be a founder of existentialist thought.

Give it a read and let me know what arises for you. I’d tell you what pops for me, but if I do it now I’ll cheat your experience. It’s a terrifically profound thought.

” … no human being can give an eternal resolution to another or take it from him; If someone objects that then one might just as well be silent if there is no probability of winning others, he thereby has merely shown that although his life very likely thrived and prospered in probability and everyone of his undertakings in the service of probability went forward, he has never really ventured and consequently has never had or given himself the opportunity to consider that probability is an illusion, but to venture the truth is what gives human life and the human situation pith and meaning, to venture is the fountainhead of inspiration, whereas probability is the sworn enemy of enthusiasm, the mirage whereby the sensate person drags out time and keeps the eternal away, whereby he cheats God, himself, and his generation: cheats God of the honor, himself of liberating annihilation, and his generation of the equality of conditions.”

      ~ Søren Kierkegaard; FourUp Discourses August 31, 1844
      Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses Hong p. 382

Among others, love this, “…probability is an illusion, but to venture the truth is what gives human life…“

Terrific stuff…

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