#whatdoesitmeantobehuman

One derives pleasure not from witnessing the sufferings of others (non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas, De Rerum Natura 2.3), but from coming to the realization that most, if not all, of what causes toil, hardship, and suffering in human life is avoidable. The Epicurean ideal of ataraxy, freedom from all that torments the human psyche, can be achieved by acquiring a knowledge of Nature’s workings and by accepting the fact that humanity is an integral part of the natural world, not an entity that is other, removed, and privileged by proximity to divinity. Ataraxy is achieved by embracing humanity’s place in Nature; to deny this simple truth is to live in constant fear:

“I fully understood that the molecules in my body and the molecules in my partners bodies and in the spacecraft, had been prototyped in some ancient generation of stars.  In other words, it was pretty obvious from those description…. we are star-dust.

In the ancient literature we found a description called Salva corpus amanti, which means ‘That you see thing as you see things with your eyes but you experience them emotionally and viscerally as it was ecstasy and a sense of totally unity and oneness’……it is something very important to the way we humans were put together