L04 · Lens
Amor fati
Do not merely accept what has happened; will it, and use it as the material of a life you would choose again.
Use: Regret, bitterness about the past, unchangeable loss.
Boundary: Never a demand to approve of injustice or cruelty.
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“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but wish events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”
Life as a game of dice
The conditions of our existence at any moment are like dice already thrown: the roll cannot be changed and must be accepted, while how skillfully we play the dice after they fall is entirely up to us.