Nietzsche - Holy thy name

I am in total agreeance with Richard Bach when he says that anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. To my resue came the book - 100 Greatest Thinkers, a part of my grandfather's priceless literary legacy.

To Friedrich Nietzsche (see picture) goes the credit of helping me make SOME sense of this godforsaken world. Excerpts from his magnum opus Thus Spake Zarathustra were a life saver of sorts.

"What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of your great contempt. The hour in which your happiness turns to disgust and likewise your reason and your virtue."

The "will to power" was for Nietzsche, the greatest of all realities, the very essence of life. This, in some way, explains my subsequent disillusionment with life, as I felt so helpless.. powerless.. to turn back time.. to undo the past happenings.

What really rung a bell was the doctrine of 'Ubermensch' or 'Overman', an unselfish, life-giving prophet who is able to accept the reality of life, even the tragic realities, without sinking into either despair, nihilism or pity. Nietzsche used it as a metaphor for the moral superman who is able to affirm all there is in life with supreme joy, possesses the will to create and he (or she I might add) finds the value of life in life itself.

So, now I know what to do..