When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my mouldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or, if that cannot be, on the road to pain. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea. But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. “There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on which neither pain nor pleasure is audible, but pass by whispering and on tip-toe. This is the road that Buddha and every great man has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune has favored his quest.” Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace. You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further. Nor will suicide really solve your problem You will, instead, embark on the longer and wearier and harder road of life. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. It has been thrown into the muddy stream of being and may never more swim back again to its source. Every created thing, even the simplest, is already guilty, already multiple. From the very start there is no innocence and no singleness. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.“There is, in fact, no way back either to the wolf or to the child.
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