/lit/ - Literature

>>10167946
Agreed.
>there is no commandment for me to give myself to the other. And when there's no commandment I can give myself freely, spontaneously
But if we follow the interdependence of "myself" and "yourself" then I already belong to you and you already belong to me. Freely and spontaneously become dependent and perpetual.
>So what you can do is trust yourself, because nobody can do it in your place
What now intrigues me is the capacity of directing and changing that "self", which I identify as the instinct.
>>10169352
>If the net effect of the act on someone else's life is the same
Will it be the same? Is it the same occupying an empty seat because you saw it empty as using a seat because you were given one? The effect is definitely more powerful on both the doer and the receiver of compassion when the act is made explicit.

I didn't leave my house today, so my post is rather short. Watching other people makes me enter a contemplative stance that I can't enter while isolated.