Being

[Magyarul]

“In general, when one gets fairly broken by life, or one encounters quite effective impressions, let them be perhaps natural impressions in their kind, one usually draws a conclusion of their own pettiness. For instance, not a while ago I heard that someone had had to see the Niagara to realize he was like a small grain. Some people assign a really strange significance to recognizing their being as a small grain. Certainly, various phenomena might be enormously greater than me, but it is I who perceive those phenomena, and they have an existence insofar as I perceive, see and experience them. In any other sense, they do not exist. I am always more than what I see. Also, I am always more than what I presuppose. And the goal is not out there somewhere. This is the profound difference between latentia and potentia [the latent and the potential]. The purpose is not hiding there somewhere, so that I will just achieve it then. No. The purpose is realized through my attaining it. There is no aim waiting out there. I have to create the purpose. I have to create my own purpose. Purposes are not waiting, least of all in the most serious orders of magnitude. The afterlife is not latent but potential. It exists through my realization. As well as the ordinary world: it exists through my constant constitution, though in this constitution I cannot recognize my own power for constitution.”

(Dr András László on being and consciousness; an excerpt)