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imminent losses in our lives. To experience silence and solitude, as George Steiner suggests, is one of the greatest joys. To exercise a beautiful mind in order to inspire and serve others achieve the best in themselves, to mentor with all our souls is also a way to happiness.
To see in each one of our crises, as the Chinese do, the opportunities for growth. In the end, after all is said and done, happiness is where we by “being” our own natures, live our natures deeply and fully, without fear, this is what Martin Heidegger means by “poetic dwelling.” To dwell poetically, is to live in presence, it is “a manifestation of being”11 where we dwell in the presence of potentiality as if it were an actuality, to see things realized in the moment, without attachment to past or future. To dwell poetically on earth is nothing short of “tracing what is holy and sacred,”12 to feel at home in homelessness, to dwell in Kundera’s unbearable lightness of being is to build, to produce, to make something appear, as in
11 Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language and Thought. 93. Heidegger, Martin. Poetry Language and Thought. Trans. A. Hofstader. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971.
12 Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language and Thought. 147. Heidegger, Martin. Poetry Language and Thought. Trans. A. Hofstader. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971.
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