These Simple Words Can Change How You Think About The Past - Nietzsche

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  • @amethystt2078
    @amethystt2078 3 года назад +7121

    “Perhaps sometimes the only way to experience the beauty of things, is to think about things in a beautiful way”

    • @Nightowl-2k.
      @Nightowl-2k. 3 года назад +15

      well said

    • @greenleef7770
      @greenleef7770 3 года назад +19

      Yes. A lot of it is based on the mind.. the mind set

    • @YeOldeKamikaze
      @YeOldeKamikaze 3 года назад +42

      Sounds a lot like gratitude.

    • @jimmynovak7913
      @jimmynovak7913 3 года назад +7

      That’s hilarious. Also stupid. Lol

    • @thirdgen377
      @thirdgen377 3 года назад +36

      @Jimmy Novak And yet you still have nothing real to say. How sad that you're not as funny as you think.

  • @Johhn_137
    @Johhn_137 2 года назад +536

    "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." By F. Nietzsche.

    • @YouAwakeYet
      @YouAwakeYet Год назад +5

      This is heavy

    • @james6401
      @james6401 Год назад +10

      Yes, forced to make a decision on whether the person is telling you the truth or lies each time they interact with you. Wild goose chases, waste of energy

    • @eriasmara7739
      @eriasmara7739 7 месяцев назад

      So true ❤​@@james6401

  • @dankeyote5873
    @dankeyote5873 3 года назад +3994

    “to love a life that tries almost every moment to make you hate it and to still stare stare back at it and say yes, i love it. what’s scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten”

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад +69

      lol and the top religion of the day says life is a sin, we are all sinners - we don't belong here, if we make sure we kiss the right butt, he will be pleased and GIVE us an eternal life of ease & pleasure!

    • @presidentkimnamjoon7472
      @presidentkimnamjoon7472 3 года назад +17

      This is powerful

    • @m.f.8752
      @m.f.8752 3 года назад +5

      Absolutely!!

    • @wms72
      @wms72 3 года назад +15

      "To love a life ..." This is Catholicism, except that Jesus gives the Catholic saint power to love this life of suffering.

    • @idzidz833
      @idzidz833 2 года назад +25

      @@ramaraksha01 ???
      if you're talking about Christianity, those are NONE of its core tenets

  • @DayVidsgaming
    @DayVidsgaming 3 года назад +1888

    4:10
    Every decision you’ve made is the best and only decisions you could of made at the time.
    With the information you had and the state of mind you were in.

    • @fuhq5121
      @fuhq5121 3 года назад +52

      Some of us have done evil things for the sake of hate. I could have made the right choice but consciously decided to commit violence to inflict pain. There was no reason or excuse. Thankfully there is forgiveness. I would not want to relive this life as i lived it before I found God.

    • @fuhq5121
      @fuhq5121 3 года назад +9

      Also I think I wanted to force someone to kill me in order to stop me.

    • @nana00037
      @nana00037 3 года назад +9

      @@fuhq5121 I don't know if my question is disrespectful or indelicate so I leave it to you to read it or not :
      Do you mind telling me more about your story ?

    • @fuhq5121
      @fuhq5121 3 года назад +11

      @@nana00037 not sure how to explain really. I was definitely self loathing and self destructive. It has always seemed to manifest in outward violence and substance abuse. Often fighting people I believed would be able to destroy me in a fight. Or would be willing to do anything, including killing, to win. If I knew I could win the fight I was very humble. If I doubted that I would win I fought. I usually didn't start a problem but I put myself in situations that weren't going to end well. I also associated with bad people. At one point I started robbing drug dealers for "fun". Anyone who seemed to be the type of person I believed I was was "fair game".

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 года назад +10

      I wish I could believe in that. But I clearly remember myself making decisions I simply hadn't thought through thoroughly. So they have never been the best decisions I could have made; they have been dumb and I know it.

  • @hunter33247
    @hunter33247 3 года назад +5694

    "what's scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten"

    • @VishalPatel-yt9ut
      @VishalPatel-yt9ut 3 года назад +100

      The message I will constantly remind myself during this pandemic and the way be are all being beaten daily into conformity and submission

    • @thedaking4880
      @thedaking4880 3 года назад +142

      "He smiled through is pain, until is pain made him smile"

    • @illosovic
      @illosovic 3 года назад +12

      The one who scowls

    • @IsaacMorgan98
      @IsaacMorgan98 3 года назад +28

      Each video has a line in it that hits like a sledge hammer, this was that videos line.

    • @tobiajojesu3312
      @tobiajojesu3312 3 года назад +5

      I love it!

  • @guyinaroom7771
    @guyinaroom7771 2 года назад +139

    4:03-4:26 probably the most impactful words I'll ever hear.
    I recently lost my mindset, my sense of self, who I am. Rewatching this video has restored at least a small part of me. That's invaluable, thank you.

    • @AB-ur9rq
      @AB-ur9rq 2 года назад +13

      You made me notice this part more carefully than I would have. And I realized how exquisite these words are. Thank you.

    • @redhezzie870
      @redhezzie870 Год назад +5

      Thank you

    • @DimpGig-wu2qm
      @DimpGig-wu2qm Год назад +1

      Thank you

  • @DemetriPanici
    @DemetriPanici 3 года назад +4325

    *"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi*

    • @KnownTruthTimeSpaces
      @KnownTruthTimeSpaces 3 года назад +60

      No! One DOES NOT need to be "better than one ever thought one could be". One needs only to be sure that, and to accept that, the quality of the effort which one is investing in one's being is genuinely virtuous. - Period. Full stop. - One does NOT need to torture and torment oneself with judgements which waste one's time and energy on an obsessive self-loathing that is instigated by accusing oneself of not being better enough (not being adequately "better than one ever thought one could be"). Simple self-assurance, vis-a-vis one's virtue in one's efforts, and simple acceptance of the sufficiency of that virtue, is the supreme key. Amor Fati.

    • @KnownTruthTimeSpaces
      @KnownTruthTimeSpaces 3 года назад +11

      @@illosovic You described it perfectly: A filter which is constructed from forced fantasy of cartoonish heroism. Well done, Illosovic.

    • @illosovic
      @illosovic 3 года назад +4

      @@KnownTruthTimeSpaces yes I knew what I meant when I said it..... but thanks though, glad someone agrees!

    • @dope712
      @dope712 3 года назад +7

      I think you didn’t understand the amor fati

    • @metanick1837
      @metanick1837 3 года назад +12

      It's not about trying to become "better".... live youe life how it is meant to be lived, love your fate...amor fati

  • @randywa
    @randywa 3 года назад +201

    “To love a life that tries every moment to make you hate it, and to still stare back at it and to say, ‘yes I love it.’ What’s scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten.” - This quote was amazing. I’m keeping it

  • @michaelshannon9169
    @michaelshannon9169 3 года назад +1560

    "If only I had..." is a prison sentence of the mind. I look back sometimes at missed opportunities, how youth is wasted on the young and I literally freeze in sheer shock at what might have been. I now see why some men grow quiet, sullen and live with a vacant stare.

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 3 года назад +156

      I have chosen a simple life because I never wanted to rise in and be a contributor to what I see as a profoundly dysfunctional society

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 3 года назад +31

      @@gregbors8364 I'm totally with you there!
      One simple question I'd like answered by the men in their twenties Et Al... Who play games like Call of Duty where warfare is now a passtime for entertainment... Is that the world you wish to live in?

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 3 года назад +2

      @@ttred7621 and that right there is so terribly depressing. The really depressing part of it being so depressing is that you probably can't even see why that is so depressing... And way Mankind is ultimately destined for extinction.

    • @Whitsican
      @Whitsican 3 года назад +27

      @@gregbors8364 let me play devils advocate for some food for thought, could that statement just be an internal comfort excuse to avoid the responsibility to choose a greater life to then “reset” you baseline of a “simple” life ?

    • @le1660
      @le1660 3 года назад +1

      @@gregbors8364 ayo same

  • @Σκιά-γ2ι
    @Σκιά-γ2ι 3 года назад +93

    "Every decision you’ve made is the best and only decision you could’ve made at the time with the information you had and the state of mind you were in. And every condition of life that either these decisions led to or that are fundamental to life in general, you have no control over and cannot change"
    I'm honestly impressed at this wordplay, you can't just describe something so clearly like this, specially a very mentally painful feeling that most people can't even explain.

    • @MAXIMUSMINIMALIST
      @MAXIMUSMINIMALIST 4 месяца назад

      That's all it is. Wordplay. The idea that every decision anyone made was the best is beyond absurd.

    • @IllIllIllIllIII
      @IllIllIllIllIII 3 месяца назад

      ​​@@MAXIMUSMINIMALIST where do you see the words "best decision ever made" in that statement?

  • @davidrosset4457
    @davidrosset4457 3 года назад +1169

    “What’s scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten?”
    Truly epic.

    • @cocodesuplex547
      @cocodesuplex547 3 года назад +10

      Rocky definitely scared the crap out of apollo so I agree. It is epic.

    • @toast2610
      @toast2610 3 года назад +4

      Being scarier rocks. Truly epic.

    • @ugandanknuckles6586
      @ugandanknuckles6586 3 года назад +13

      Insanity can be terrifying

    • @warrenbradford2597
      @warrenbradford2597 2 года назад +4

      The most terrifying monsters are your fellow men after all.

    • @JJ-xt2dq
      @JJ-xt2dq 2 года назад +1

      Ah yes “epic” thats what this is about

  • @soldtobediers
    @soldtobediers 3 года назад +185

    ''How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday still in me.'' ~Leonard Cohen

  • @normantent
    @normantent 3 года назад +2234

    The more I learn of Nietzsche I don't see a nihilist unless I don't understand nihilism properly I see Nietzsche as one of the most optimistic philosophers there is

    • @courtneyvaldez7903
      @courtneyvaldez7903 3 года назад +538

      By FAR the most misread, misunderstood, and misapplied philosopher. Few thinkers generate a greater sense of positive potential than him because what is more inspiring than looking into and existing within the abyss, and STILL believing in the capacity to find the light?

    • @mord0
      @mord0 3 года назад +220

      In short, Nietzsche is a perspectivist, a person who believes that all truth claims are contingent on, and the product of, a person's perspective.

    • @illosovic
      @illosovic 3 года назад +185

      Nihilism isn't inherently negative the way people think

    • @user-ov4fo6iy3c
      @user-ov4fo6iy3c 3 года назад +98

      I love the fact that someone can love life and act like it's worth living despite the terrible suffering.

    • @mord0
      @mord0 3 года назад +67

      @@illosovic nihilism is an offshoot of his very empowering philosophy. Believing everything as inherently meaningless is NOT an impetus for self-empowerment and transvaluation.

  • @Hexnilium
    @Hexnilium 3 года назад +406

    "Pain is weakness leaving the body." That's a phrase used by Navy Seals to endure their training and to grow stronger.
    By uttering it, repeating it, embracing it, the mantra reframes conscious thought into embracing pain instead of avoiding it.
    If you react to cold rain and try to avoid it, you'll feel anguish.
    If you instead embrace the coldness as a wonderful expression of nature, it will become exhilarating.
    The power is in the reframing, but you begin to become enlightened as this view of life's every moment from good to bad pervades your consciousness and you see the higher perspective of it all as miraculous, grand, divine in scale and scope.
    It's akin to understanding how small you actually are in comparison to the size of the universe. Once you see it, you are momentarily enlightened. To revisit that thought over and over trains your mind towards a more persistent perspective.
    When amor fati becomes your lens to which you have trained your mind to see everything through, then existence becomes less futile and instead full of wonderment in every facet.

    • @Mii.2.0
      @Mii.2.0 3 года назад +12

      One word to describe this universally enlightening comment:
      *Based.*

    • @KamiFrost99
      @KamiFrost99 3 года назад +4

      Well in a certain way, that's true
      If you get shot and you feel pain, it means that you're alive (Weakness leaving the body)
      If sometime later you stop feeling pain, you get shot again, and you don't feel anything, it means that you're about to die... or in other cases, about to faint (Weakness didn't leave the body)

    • @Kens_mojo_dojo_casa_house
      @Kens_mojo_dojo_casa_house 2 года назад +6

      "dang you think maybe you should go to the hospital?"
      Nah Appendicitis isn't real. That's just the weakness leaving my body
      *Dies in pain*

    • @elk2502
      @elk2502 2 года назад +4

      Very well written. Thank you 🙏

    • @Hexnilium
      @Hexnilium 2 года назад +14

      @@Kens_mojo_dojo_casa_house It's physical pain, but mainly meant as metaphorical pain.
      In grueling exercise or training, it's your mental ability to squash the pain telling you to stop.
      There's a natural inclination by the body to inform the brain that you're going too hard such as the feeling that you get when trying to run a full blown sprint for as long as possible. Your body physically could run harder or longer, but your brain is telling you to pull back.
      Overcoming that sensation is where the mantra comes into play. It's retooling the sensors in your brain to withstand more by conscious command.
      It's not referencing pains caused by injury or illness.

  • @tim8241
    @tim8241 3 года назад +572

    "Amor Fati"
    This is the one quote that my mom showed me when I was struggling with my PTSD and Depression! It always stuck with me and it will always have a special place in my heart!

    • @kyetexe954
      @kyetexe954 3 года назад +2

      ❤️

    • @orionleo9392
      @orionleo9392 3 года назад +11

      what quote?

    • @taz_trader
      @taz_trader 3 года назад +5

      @@orionleo9392 Amor fati

    • @MrEysox
      @MrEysox 3 года назад +6

      @@orionleo9392 Love of someone's fate

    • @karanmathur5276
      @karanmathur5276 3 года назад

      @@kyetexe954 ruclips.net/video/7NFX2OCGDOI/видео.html

  • @LauraHorrorshow
    @LauraHorrorshow 2 года назад +30

    “What scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten?”
    This hit me right in the fati.

  • @matteovanderlugt7962
    @matteovanderlugt7962 3 года назад +546

    "Those who were seen dancing were thought of insane by those who could not hear the music"

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 3 года назад +18

      Those who broke down and wept were thought of (as) insane by those who were blinded by the joy of the sunrise.

    • @Mind2Mason
      @Mind2Mason 3 года назад +17

      @@SusannaSaunders the difference is, those who broke down and wept, some of them look at those dancing and develop hatred in their hearts. Those who dance and see them, their heart breaks and they weep with those who break. But they don't let this stop the dance. They don't stop reaching a hand out, waiting for anyone who will take it. I cry, I weep, and I am seen dancing some lonely nights

    • @andralynsimmons3789
      @andralynsimmons3789 3 года назад +1

      @@Mind2Mason 🖤👌🏾

    • @pjd9384
      @pjd9384 2 года назад

      I love this

  • @jpatricioguevara631
    @jpatricioguevara631 3 года назад +26

    “To love a life that tries in almost every moment to make you hate it, and to still stare back at it and say, yes, I love it.”

  • @rio9981
    @rio9981 3 года назад +470

    Neitzche was born way ahead of his time.
    I sometimes wish he was still there and see how he positively impacted many people's lives across the world.

    • @Ytown08
      @Ytown08 3 года назад +32

      If he was born today, he would still be ahead of his time.

    • @maggie0285
      @maggie0285 3 года назад +12

      Do we even have great philosophers today?

    • @brushstroke3733
      @brushstroke3733 3 года назад +3

      How do you know he does not see and share in all that we experience now? He has re-emerged into non-physical being, not gone away.

    • @Hussain_Zaki
      @Hussain_Zaki 3 года назад +13

      He'd be a great shitposter tho

    • @Hussain_Zaki
      @Hussain_Zaki 3 года назад +10

      @@maggie0285 You ever heard of nikocado avocado ?

  • @sofiarestaino6537
    @sofiarestaino6537 Год назад +5

    "the only way to experience the beauty of things is to think about things in a beautiful way" so powerful. Last year I was so miserable I thought I didnt have a reason to live. This makes me feel so powerful.

  • @thechancellor-
    @thechancellor- 3 года назад +635

    To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.

    • @raulrus9026
      @raulrus9026 3 года назад +22

      Thanks, I really needed this right now, the problem is that I don't have any passions, nothing to fight for, all I do is running away from bad feelings, especially boredom. I have nothing to scrafice my mental energy, I just do my colleague assignments and then wait for something to happen or just watch RUclips, or maybe play video games, the point is that I don't like anything in particular. Can you give an advice?

    • @coolpfpbut
      @coolpfpbut 3 года назад +5

      Who's the worthwhile person?

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 3 года назад +7

      @Jaxan7294
      @I like peni
      You are both right... Life is futile, pointless and meaningless. It serves no point or purpose other than its own (futile) existence. You can develop a passion, a love for a thing, a game, a craft like photography or a skill like painting. But ultimately, it stands for nothing but to amuse others and pass the days of your life. It is all ultimately futile and pointless. A chasing after the wind. If you are fulfilled by it then I envy your vision of it and I hope that the window never breaks so that you see the futility of your joy.

    • @raulrus9026
      @raulrus9026 3 года назад +5

      @@SusannaSaunders that's depressing:)), thanks for say it out loud but I don't think everything it's futile if you live on a small scale, like we all do for example by helping someone or do something extreme we can forget about all the futility and pointless existence

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 3 года назад +4

      @@raulrus9026 that is what I do... I stay in my little (futile) bubble while the world burns because of people like Trump, Johnson and various dictatorships around the world. This is not a world for the righteous, it's a world for those with no conscience.

  • @jenmdawg
    @jenmdawg Год назад +10

    I’m in my 54th year. I had a deep love of philosophy to guide me well in my late teens and early adulthood and out of my criminal family. I was successful in ways that beat the odds and then I destroyed it with… regrets and anxiety and ambition and ultimately addiction.
    It is very very difficult to forgive yourself when you’ve been conditioned to believe that material success and status are markers of a good life.
    I returned to the Stoics a few years ago and this video made me realize I’d relegated Nietszche to the “edge lords” of my day (angry smart young men) but this message shines right on my central anguish of not being able to forgive myself.
    My fiancé died last year suddenly but we had 8 great years together after our first week together when he said “to get the life you want, learn how to want the life you have”.
    Yes.

  • @MindsettoMastery
    @MindsettoMastery 3 года назад +273

    When you're in the grip of pain, it's hard to imagine that there could be a silver lining down the track. But many of life's most valuable lessons are associated with pain. From pain, something beautiful can emerge. 💫

    • @noahderstand
      @noahderstand 3 года назад +8

      It's one I believe more than "good things happen to good people." That every time something painful has come my way, some occurrence after that was beautiful, fulfilling and could not have happened if the painful part hadn't. I see that as a truth.

    • @TomNoles007
      @TomNoles007 2 года назад +1

      So true, and as someone who has experienced horrendous emotional pain - including child bereavement - I say to you in horrible pain right now: Hold on! It will get better, I promise! Don't give up! ❤

    • @iainoam2565
      @iainoam2565 Год назад +2

      I mean without pain, would we truly be able to appreciate those beautiful things for just how great they are without the knowledge of what pain is?

    • @sleepete12
      @sleepete12 Год назад +2

      hmm, I don't have such experience, bad things resulted in bad things again... unless those fruits come so late that I will not be even able to enjoy their taste

    • @di3dsudd3nly
      @di3dsudd3nly Год назад +2

      My mom is never coming back. That pain is never going away. I gave up the last 8 years of her being on this rock for a woman who cheated on me with her drug dealer after 7 years of marriage and 3 kids. The only beautiful things to come out of such pain are my 3 kids. They are the reason I wake up EVERY single day. Thank you for this. ❤

  • @FormsInSpace
    @FormsInSpace 3 года назад +36

    "acceptance" is the key to a happy life.

  • @00HoODBoy
    @00HoODBoy 3 года назад +192

    this channel is a goldmine. it means everything

  • @hughwheaton2705
    @hughwheaton2705 Год назад +9

    I'm convinced amor fati is possible with practice. Without realising it, I'd been implementing this ideal in my life well before I started reading Nietzsche and this allows your spirit to ascend above all worldy suffering, living in reality instead of wishes and regrets.

  • @Eternalised
    @Eternalised 3 года назад +89

    *“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.”*
    - Nietzsche
    One of my favourite quotes. Brilliant video.

  • @kevinobrien3888
    @kevinobrien3888 3 года назад +35

    This is exactly what I needed today.
    I turned 50 this year and in my last 6 years of being romantic relationship free (after 30 years of trying) I’ve really observed those around me as a way to identify how I want to be. We have so much abundance and yet we are such a miserable American society.
    There are a small few things I’d want different, but those things don’t make me sad or regretful, but for sure they helped define who I am now and I’m grateful for that.
    Gratitude is so powerful.

    • @kevinobrien3888
      @kevinobrien3888 Год назад +1

      @Koopa Man I’m doing great. Thanks for asking. I turn 52 in two months and I’ll hit 8 years of being single a week before my birthday.
      Dating has fallen off a cliff if you watch other content. My dogs make me happy and a lot of self growth has made me understand my past.
      No woman will ever “complete” me. Maybe if she’s a keeper she’ll “complement” my life.

    • @alaskalograft
      @alaskalograft Год назад +1

      I no longer seek happiness in romance. The best times of my romances have been before I met "her"😂 enjoy the path that you are on.

    • @kevinobrien3888
      @kevinobrien3888 Год назад

      @@alaskalograft I’m going on 8 years now. Still happy. I’m on the right path for sure. I don’t think I know a happy couple that’s under 60 yrs old.

  • @muffin-iq3tg
    @muffin-iq3tg 3 года назад +208

    This came at a very needed time...

    • @illosovic
      @illosovic 3 года назад +1

      Cool....

    • @ohome9893
      @ohome9893 3 года назад +11

      For me too, it's weird lol

    • @LaiPt
      @LaiPt 3 года назад +14

      lol I was having suicidal thoughts, then this popped up.

    • @kirandeep1534
      @kirandeep1534 3 года назад +6

      @@LaiPt Hey I hope you are feeling better 🌸

    • @ZealousWins
      @ZealousWins 3 года назад +4

      @@LaiPt please don't do anything to yourself. You matter.

  • @grace7961
    @grace7961 2 года назад +12

    This video really made me think about my life and my regrets. Before watching this video I had always thought sadness as the trigger for happiness for it made happiness special and well, happy. This video really helped me find deeper insight into my life, and yes, right now I am in the mood to say, I do love my life.
    Through all my sufferings in vain and with all the sadness and the pain, I would do it all over again.
    Again, thank you, Pursuit of Wonder. I hope I never forget this videos message.
    Amor Fati

  • @cheycheyliddi
    @cheycheyliddi 3 года назад +64

    I got 'amor fati tattoo'd on my collarbone years ago because this concept has helped me through my struggles with depression and mental illness time and time again

  • @DibbzTV
    @DibbzTV Год назад +1

    This just made me cry. I’ve fought and criticized for all my life, and this both respects and honors that but also reminding me to love it anyways. In tears rn

  • @SirIsaacNooton
    @SirIsaacNooton 3 года назад +47

    8:28 "What's scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten?" gave me chills.

  • @dayanandraut5660
    @dayanandraut5660 3 года назад +7

    this guy creates trance so deep that i feel even the ad is a part of story.

  • @kamadok1d
    @kamadok1d 3 года назад +52

    God this video really hit me like a truck. I’ve been carrying around the weight of regret for many years on events I just can’t change. This perspective has given me some light, thank you

  • @Razzy_D9111
    @Razzy_D9111 2 года назад +7

    I come back to this from time to time to remind myself how nice the whole idea you are talking about is, thanks for everything dude.

  • @QualeQualeson
    @QualeQualeson 3 года назад +266

    This is such a tricky theme. One the one hand, finding beauty and being present in the present is obviously wisdom. But on the other, we have a natural mode that we cannot intellectualize our way out of. This must also be part of the acceptance of ones fate, a fate that was dealt you by what you are: Human (all too human). A balance must be achieved, but once you've opened Pandora's box, it's hard to get the lid back on. "Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water." - Zen proverb.
    Nietzsche did what intelligent people often do in the face of fundamental adversity; they generate a narrative that covers the holes. (There are diagnostic labels for this, but I won't get into that). As his brilliant mind was racing, he fantasized himself into a protective idea of (almost) being super human. He was smart enough to realize as much, but he was powerless to stop it as his "intellectual addiction" spiralled him ever further away from what he really wanted.
    So let this be a warning to us all: You are _not_ super human and your intellect can only take you so far. If your basic needs are not met (some of which involve a level of social integration) you will pay the price, no matter what your ego tells you. A human is a herd animal that thinks it's an individual. In the face of your true existential parameters, your mind constructs and ego is swept away by the ruthless indifference of the natural order like so many chaffs. "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret." (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, but she'll always come back) - Horace

    • @will-fx7yq
      @will-fx7yq 3 года назад +6

      i disagree

    • @abdulkadirmunir5334
      @abdulkadirmunir5334 3 года назад

      Very good point !!

    • @Jtma67
      @Jtma67 3 года назад +10

      You did a good job covering the different faces of the phenomenon. This is something I've been thinking about lately. I've hit what could be called my senior years and am facing head on how to deal with the totality of my feelings about my life. I have a son who is facing many internal issues and external realities,and there is no clearer way to see if one has succeeded in life then to look at a grown child. It's all there in black and white. My time is running out and I find it easy to come to the precipice of panic. But if I adopt this philosophy then can I let go of my angst and anguish and rest easy? Am I wasting energy that I desperately need? I know I'll listen to this again until I'm sure I have taken it in fully. Then .....?

    • @QualeQualeson
      @QualeQualeson 3 года назад

      @@Jtma67 Are you asking me for advice? If so, I need to know what you mean by "this philosophy".

    • @Jtma67
      @Jtma67 3 года назад +1

      I didn't honestly think about asking for advice. I like the way you think and wouldn't be averse to your thoughts. But what I mean by this philosophy is the totality of what you expressed. To put it simply it's the ability to let go of the burden of the past and look at life in a more neutral way. Letting go, right?

  • @emmalestrangeart1331
    @emmalestrangeart1331 Год назад +2

    I know Nietzsche as a philosopher but have never engaged with his work until now. What a serendipitous moment in my life to stumble across this video.

  • @Anabsurdsuggestion
    @Anabsurdsuggestion 3 года назад +22

    The editing skill (and decision-making) on show in your video are top drawer, and really help propel it. Touches of Terry Gilliam. A joy to watch, well done.

  • @manuiitm
    @manuiitm 2 года назад +5

    The philosophy shared in this video is lovely. Loving one’s fate certainly makes life less miserable.
    However, we often use regret as tool to shape our future behavior. The challenge is to analyze and reflect on the past without falling into trap of regret.

  • @sp00nz4hire8
    @sp00nz4hire8 3 года назад +27

    I was just starting to fully read beyond good and evil today and now this video. How convenient.

    • @amaanpatel9889
      @amaanpatel9889 3 года назад +4

      I tried reading Nietzsche, but I find most of his writings quite hard to grasp😂

    • @lilwasted7685
      @lilwasted7685 3 года назад

      just ordered the book last weekend. pretty excited to start reading it.

    • @00HoODBoy
      @00HoODBoy 3 года назад +1

      @@amaanpatel9889 it is probably the most challenging writing ive ever read, but im not a very bright person. remind yourself that its ok to not "get it"

    • @amaanpatel9889
      @amaanpatel9889 3 года назад +4

      @@00HoODBoy I'm not the brightest crayon either, but I might give it another go after my exams. Although I find that articles, lectures and short video summaries are easier to digest.

    • @NishantKJha-qk2ow
      @NishantKJha-qk2ow 3 года назад

      @@amaanpatel9889 which major you have taken at college ??

  • @TheRealShaanSolo
    @TheRealShaanSolo 3 года назад +24

    Whether good or bad, you gotta embrace the experience of every moment with gratitude and peace within...start by being grateful for even (still) being alive in the first place.

    • @davegreene1198
      @davegreene1198 Год назад +4

      The odds of even being here are astronomical.

  • @miguelfernandes5628
    @miguelfernandes5628 3 года назад +8

    Mopping blood off the floor and bleaching it, assisting lost visitors to the cafeteria, listening a co worker about her long hard day for a minute, checking on my friend whose glucose has gone down and is sitting on the break room, running down the pavilion to clean triage rooms for the patients waiting to be treated, and bringing tea with lots of honey to our supervisor who's battling a bad stomach. As I biked home after work last night I meditated on how much I really love working on the ER of a major hospital in my city and felt grateful to experience intense days like this and how I wouldn't change any of it. Now the cherry on top of it is finding this video today. =)

    • @NoxBruh
      @NoxBruh 3 года назад +3

      Thank you so very much for what you do. You and your work, just being there for others, listening to coworkers, I'm sure it means much more than you may think sometimes. Keep being the wonderful person you so seem to be, and I wish you all the best ❤️

    • @miguelfernandes5628
      @miguelfernandes5628 3 года назад +1

      @@NoxBruh Thank you =)

    • @NoxBruh
      @NoxBruh 3 года назад +1

      @@miguelfernandes5628 You're very welcome! I hope you have a wonderful day, and stay safe this holiday season!

  • @sandeman2001
    @sandeman2001 3 года назад +2

    This music choices in this one is awesome

  • @TheDoomer666
    @TheDoomer666 3 года назад +10

    These were probably the best 5'ish minutes of my day, and my day was already beautiful. Thank you.

  • @ThePrinceHerb
    @ThePrinceHerb 3 года назад +152

    A quote from Mr. Nobody the movie: “As long as you don’t chose, everything remains possible”.

    • @ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290
      @ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290 3 года назад +23

      But isn't choosing not to choose also a choice ?

    • @user-oj9cf9uo4g
      @user-oj9cf9uo4g 3 года назад +5

      @@ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290 That's exactly what I think whenever I see that quote

    • @ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290
      @ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290 3 года назад +3

      @@user-oj9cf9uo4g ikr everything seems contradictory

    • @tanmayasahu5171
      @tanmayasahu5171 3 года назад +4

      @@ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290 everything is tangled , the mere life itself is a sum of all the consious and unconsious decisions , the only choice we as humans need to make is be open to ideas outside of our usual , Explore, live the possibilities life has to offer , As Krishnamurti says Truth is a Pathless Land And to see/perceive it we have to be limitless ,not to form opinion on something but have the ability to see things objectively as the way they are ,as thought itself is broad as life can be

    • @Sarah-jr4ir
      @Sarah-jr4ir 3 года назад +4

      @@ayeshhhhhhaaaaa7290 I chose no to chose for a long time, and what happened was that my present forever replicated my past and I became stuck.

  • @robbaholic
    @robbaholic 3 года назад +7

    Nietzsche is my spirit animal.
    So much of what I read from him and about him, just hits me right in my soul. I’ve always felt so nostalgic and a longing for things I could have done differently. I would lie to myself and others and say I would never go back to change anything, that that would be a disservice to the growth I’ve experienced, and the people I’ve come to know and love because of the paths I took; but deep down, I am as nostalgic as anyone, and always thinking of where I could be now if I had done things differently.
    I’ve felt the loneliness Nietzsche speaks of, and the feeling that the universe is actively plotting against you, or a life “doing everything it can to make you hate it”; I’ve felt it all too often. But the truth is that the lie I’ve always told, is the reality I am coming closer to everyday. That I should love this life in spite of difficulties, and for all the reasons that make it worth living.

  • @taylorthenatural5509
    @taylorthenatural5509 2 года назад +4

    There are a lot of things that happened in my past that I wouldn't want to repeat for anything. It's hard to fathom acceptance for a repeated fate that horrible, because I still ponder what life would be like if I had made different choices.

  • @EverlastGX
    @EverlastGX 3 года назад +3

    I get this just as I reflected today for the first time in years about my past and some of the pain and regrets I have.

  • @kyota9712
    @kyota9712 2 года назад +31

    Amor fati is a sentiment of willingness to accept at last the way things have gone and will go, to love a life that tries in almost every moment to make you hate it, and to still stare back at it and say: "Yes, I love it." What's scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten?

  • @ALittleLateLotusBlossom
    @ALittleLateLotusBlossom 3 года назад +8

    What initially led me towards your channel was discovering your Arthur Schopenhauer video. Then later on the video from Nietzsche that was titled Discovering Who You truly are. You've helped me out of a dark place time and time again, and through adopting Eastern philosophies into a very Western capitalistic centralized way of living, I truly find value in the work you put on your RUclips channel and I'm humbled by your teachings as well as all I've learned through Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanations and discussions on quantum theory, life and death, and the mysteries of the universe. It seems that the process of adulthood and the transitionary years between late adolescence and your early twenties seems to be a period of time where most people feel lost but you have always provided me with a sense of calm and ease, it's true what they say knowledge is power, it's the power to understand what is what has yet to be and what truly matters in the grand scheme of what is sometimes perceived as a careless universe. But there is pattern to the chaos and there is truth in the knowledge that if we are a people who are blessed with so much knowledge and so much emotion than existence cannot be a mere fluke of the universe. We are the living and feeling part of the universe that experiences itself and what time it is to be alive in the year we live in. Things may seem dark and bleak and abysmal from time to time, but there is so much beauty left if you are willing to find it, cherish it nurture it, and fight for it.

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад +1

      Heaven is for the old, the Retired, the weak, the lazy & the coward
      Reincarnation or REAL LIFE is for the Young, the dreamer, the strong, the worker & the Warrior
      Total opposites - the world that you know says you have to grow up, learn to stand on your own two feet, make a honest living, EARN what you desire, if stale bread is all you can afford, that is what you eat, you don't beg, you don't live on Charity
      Heaven is the total opposite
      One begs to get in down on one's knees, spend eternity as a shameless dependent, weak, sheltered, protected and cared for like a helpless child, the good life is GIVEN, not EARNED, live on charity for eternity

  • @OriginalOriginStories
    @OriginalOriginStories 2 года назад +1

    I love watching this at .50 speed. its so much more darker and angsty.

  • @moviequotessz2767
    @moviequotessz2767 3 года назад +5

    I don't know how many times I've seen this video. It brings peace to my mind

  • @bearinpinkk5072
    @bearinpinkk5072 2 года назад +1

    That first question is a very complex question. Their so much good and bad that has happened in my 21 years of life. I would say the good would out weigh the bad as far as me wanting to relive it. meeting my first and only true love again would be the up most point of it

  • @Justin-bt5kt
    @Justin-bt5kt 3 года назад +24

    I needed this to be a reinforcement in my ways of thinking. Thank you, from one human to another.

  • @Glxdiatorr
    @Glxdiatorr 3 года назад +2

    gonna be watching this once a week, great video dude

  • @jeydomo
    @jeydomo 3 года назад +20

    I think I've struggled grasping the thought of not the totality of the ends justify the means, but the individual aspects. Like understood that I regret hurting people, it's still on my conscience even now, but I can see that it's a truth that needed to be said or a motivation that was ignited. Watching this made me finally come to terms that, I am not a disastrous and destructive fool. Circumstances are unfortunate but they happen and become experiences for others and myself. Love thyself, for if you do not, who else would? Not everything will come easily in life for you or others, but it will continue on and events contribute to the grand scheme of things.
    Thank you again for this.

  • @ethanpen3470
    @ethanpen3470 8 месяцев назад

    I have been in a state of debilitating depression. This video is among the sources of inspiration I turn to to keep going.

  • @mirelblanco2793
    @mirelblanco2793 3 года назад +6

    the fact that i get to watch such a good channel that gives out great concepts and makes such good videos that are extremely admiring and interesting and to be honest in my opinion perfect videos for free is a blessing. Pursuit of Wonder, sincerely, you're the best channel on youtube doubt. Don't ever stop making videos ❤️

  • @terrormilk384
    @terrormilk384 2 года назад +3

    first i cried because of how truly horrific and sad Nietzsches live was and then i cried again because of the insights provided to overcome pain by smiling at it. I meditated a lot in the woods, and looking at the full moon in darkness becoming one with the nature of your body and soul i forgot my pain and started to strive for this verry beautyness ive experienced in that state of mind, it's like a dance of the soul, it gets completely loose and falls into bliss, and this way of Nietzsche to face the tragedy made me realize that this is the only way. I love this man so much

  • @ghitabenjelloun4058
    @ghitabenjelloun4058 Год назад +3

    I got goosebumps in my head is that even possible ?

    • @MAXIMUSMINIMALIST
      @MAXIMUSMINIMALIST 4 месяца назад

      Yes it is. It means you connected with the universe.

  • @WooWoo_Deb
    @WooWoo_Deb Год назад +1

    "Yes - I love it." So timely in my life right now. Thank you so much, and thank you Nietzche! I'm launching research into your wisdom!

  • @BreadMPH
    @BreadMPH 3 года назад +68

    It's very fascinating to consider that the whole concept of amor fati is very similar to the core idea of Buddhism - acceptance. Is it a mere coincidence that both Nietzsche and the Buddha arrive at this conclusion of acceptance? Or does it point to a deeper truth, namely that acceptance IS the key to leading a good life?

    • @彗星蒸し
      @彗星蒸し 3 года назад +5

      I always enjoy seeing someone take notice of this pairing of very temporally and geographically disparate modes of thought. It's important to note, however, that while both approaches are elaborations on "positive nihilism," Nietzsche's ideas are functionally the ultimate expression of humanism, while every school of Buddhism presents something akin to anti-humanism.
      Neither approach is "better" than the other, of course, though the two can be digested most easily through the cosmologies they offer. Nietzsche's proposed "circular" universe is the truly eternal stage of the joys and sufferings of the actors upon it, who persist in their frolicking and follies for ever and ever, through endless iterations. However, very much to the contrary, the final goal of every Buddhism is the total cessation of dukkha (the end of suffering, via the total negation of the aforementioned frolicking and follies) which, with the final kalpa, culminates in the termination of this universe -- which is fine, according to this system, because all mutable souls will have by then ascended to some form of alien/very-much-not-human state in a "higher" plane of existence.

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад +3

      Nietzsche was influenced by Hindu thought, not Buddhist - nothing about Nietzsche is defeatist - Nietzsche talked about life after life - Reincarnation

    • @victorcenteno8048
      @victorcenteno8048 2 года назад +1

      Schopenhauer was the first who brought Buddhism into western philosophy. Subsequently Nietzsche got inspired.

    • @bambubombon
      @bambubombon Год назад

      it's akin to Catholic resignation.

  • @sirius851
    @sirius851 Год назад

    Honestly, this might be one of the best RUclips videos I watched. Amor Fati so simple and yet so amazing and overall effective. It’s life it’s ok, love life for what it is for it’s lows and for it’s highs. Stay on self-improvement for fulfilment of the fact that you are even better than yesterday, help others, improve your community build connections, we are all alone and together on this hard and unfair life, amazing stuff.

  • @docmemphis
    @docmemphis 3 года назад +26

    I always find myself revisiting his philosophy for guidance.

  • @SteveSmith-zz4ih
    @SteveSmith-zz4ih Год назад +1

    Watched this and it made a lot of sense, lost my beautiful dog to a snake bite in Jan, i keep going over the bizarre events that led to the distressing end. Yet i can not change what happened BUT i know my best companion had a great loving 4 years with me. Always remember there are others in a worse place than us. We survive to enjoy every day as its a present. Pets will not let you down, people will because its the nature of our existence, we are a selfish breed and its getting worse.

  • @GeorgeLennon100
    @GeorgeLennon100 Год назад

    The power of letting go is the best and most powerful action to attain. I am still striving for Amor Fati and will achieve it with due diligence.

  • @maciekwawryszyn658
    @maciekwawryszyn658 3 года назад +41

    I’m watching these videos every night. Honestly i dont think I can even fall asleep without watching one.
    I love your content so much. Aspecialy the longer videos❤️

  • @stevedriscoll2539
    @stevedriscoll2539 Год назад +2

    This video is dense and the most poetic and beautiful treatise against self-negation or negation of being I have yet to encounter. Thank you doesn't cut it ❤❤❤

  • @alejandrobonilla2145
    @alejandrobonilla2145 3 года назад +4

    Amor Fati just changed my life.❤️
    Thanks puirsuit of wonder.❤️

  • @ernie548
    @ernie548 2 года назад

    This is fundamentally in line with much of modern psychology. We spend more time looking back in disappointment and looking ahead to idolize the unknown, rather than loving now. IMHO what we think, and believe, shapes our perception and thus shapes mood and reality.

  • @frankchilds9848
    @frankchilds9848 3 года назад +6

    Thanks for this. I needed to be reminded of the power of Nietsche and his heart ❤💙

  • @guyinaroom7771
    @guyinaroom7771 2 года назад

    I can't truly express how I feel about this video in specific and many of your other videos. I don't understand how a few videos can impact and shape me so greatly, how accurate and seemingly perfect of a solution I'm presented. I wish to stay in this mindset forever, I've lost it a few times but I think this might be the time I keep it for good.

  • @mrcuttime22
    @mrcuttime22 3 года назад +6

    This is very thought-provoking. I rather think that by learning early that life cannot BE perfect but we try for perfection anyway just to be honorable people, has changed from familial honor to personal integrity since the 60s. Of course, not everyone "GOT the memo."
    Still, I remind myself that "Everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be," and to "Want what I already have." But I still come round to regretting and wishing. I almost wonder if it isn't a FEATURE of success. That to know success, one must also know failure. A paradoxical universe would demand nothing less of us.

  • @theotherhalfoftheang
    @theotherhalfoftheang Год назад

    I always come by this video in my hardest and darkest moments in this my life and i smile "hagase tu voluntad Señor".

  • @disheveling
    @disheveling 3 года назад +22

    I think Carl Jung was greatly inspired by the works and life of Nietzsche, and modeled his framework of the collective conscious after many of his insights. Jung made note of Nietzsche's approach to dealing with the absurdity of life, but found it to be missing a vital component, to later build upon in his own conclusions in The Red Book and his other later works. Nietzsche had written of a 'will to power' holding value above all else: to push against the fate given to you, and channel your resolve through love for an absolute reality that you ultimately cannot control. This core tenet eventually lead him to his deathbed, broken and alone, a self-made pariah that dreamed of abandoning his hatred, his shadow, to transcend into a positive force for change. Reaching divinity through transcendence of suffering. Forcing the will to love the absurd, as his health deteriorated, as he was abandoned, as the sister he hated changed his undergarments on his dying bed. There is a certain madness that needs to be tapped into, to reposition your framework in such a way, to tap into the Dionysian pleasure found in the suffering. Nietzsche may have found that madness, a roundabout way of coming to terms with his shadow.
    Jung believed that Nietzsche weighed too heavily on will alone, and instead proposed an integration of a perceived shared duality in all humankind; there was a 'better' way to approach the shadow. There lies in all of us, a capacity for hatred, greed, corruption, and part of coming to accept and love the hand dealt to us comes from accepting this capacity, rather than repressing it. This integration, this acceptance of the duality within us, allows us to control the shadow and utilize its best parts.
    I think both of these philosophers, erudites, worked to pursue the depths of the human psyche, tapping into parts of the unconscious they may not have fully understood. Their words are invaluable today, and even now pave the way to unraveling the unconscious mind. Nietzsche may have suffered a bitter life toward the end, but Nihilism is not an inherently bitter or negative philosophy, it is simply the acceptance of our paths, meaningless as they are. There is great hope in Nihilism, in accepting the absurd and finding one's own meaning. Both of these people carry words that our modern society greatly needs.

  • @dhammaboy1203
    @dhammaboy1203 7 месяцев назад

    This is a very wise perspective and whilst I was aware of Eternal Recurrence, I wasn't aware of Amour Fati. Interestingly my Dad used to tell me often that we make the best decision we can in any moment based on the information available to is in that moment. If you come to realize later it was the wrong decision - it's because you gained more insight or perspective. So dont regret - you did your best!

  • @m...1045
    @m...1045 3 года назад +20

    "For in great wisdom is great sorrow. "
    Nietzsche became those words, yet never resolved his childhood.. Paradoxical

    • @cheeriobutt
      @cheeriobutt 3 года назад +2

      I continually struggle between my drive to be genuine and the emotions I feel about experiences and situations. In a sense, the concept of amor fati is one that bridges western philosophy to the tenets of eastern philosophy. I find amor fati to be inauthentic; it's an instinct of mine to reject the lifestyle as one that does not fit into my own....'operating system' (I'm a software consultant and short on vocab right now). As a result, life - to me - is a mix of jiffies of happiness mixed with long periods of emotional vacancy and occasional deep, long lows. One may argue that it'd be in my best interest to try to embrace amor fati, just as it would be to find comfort in faith. But my brain rejects it because my mind finds it as acceptable as....planning for a unicorn to appear.

    • @m...1045
      @m...1045 3 года назад

      @@cheeriobutt embrace, Memento mori.
      "Beware of Software "
      👍
      God speed Tina

  • @NachoMan154
    @NachoMan154 2 года назад

    4:15 exactly my words. Im almost crying. I've tried to explain it to people like you did. But nobody seems to want to except this. They are all brainwashed by parents and teachers. They tell you, you have to feel bad to overcome failures and don't repeat them, but thats false!

  • @Nucleite
    @Nucleite 2 года назад +5

    Due to selfish fear, I allowed a family member to get hurt, which haunts me constantly. I wish that I had a time machine, to go back in time to save them from the danger that I saw coming. I know I can't change it, but the pain of knowing that I betrayed my own morals and selfishly allowed someone I love to get hurt due to my own cowardice, that's the worst pain I can imagine a person with a conscience carrying.
    I believe that, if the individual is truly remorseful and desires to change their character to prevent further pain, then they deserve a second chance, no matter what they did or what their behavior was.
    It's easy for me to say this and open myself to forgiving the worst of the worst, but for me, it's been a long, bumpy, chaotic, terrifying road to recovery. Of course, I'm not minimizing or downplaying the suffering of the person who was hurt, but I know that they do not need to feel guilt or shame, because it wasn't their fault whatsoever. Anybody would accept them, anybody would love them, and nobody would label them for it.
    I do hope that, one day, I will be able to put all of this behind me and forgive myself for such a selfish act. Of course, keeping it a secret from those I love can't be helpful to my psyche, but them knowing also wouldn't be helpful to them. I'm not a danger to anyone and I didn't want what happened to happen. I just had information that would have prevented it, but was terrified about what would happen if I revealed it.
    Life isn't black and white, nor is it linear. It's all so confusing, disturbing, but in the right light, those qualities can be seen as exciting and fill one with a sense of adventure. However, when you are shrouded by darkness all the time, you can't appreciate the darkness, just like a person who's had an easygoing life can't fully appreciate the light that surrounds them.
    Yes, I casted myself into the darkness, but I do not wish nor deserve to live here forever, regardless of who I was, because who I am wants to become something even better than the past and present versions of myself.
    I believe that life is like playing a game of chess with your future self, unknowingly trying to put your future self in checkmate. I believe I almost have, and there was a time where I thought I did, but as long as I still breathe, and as long as I'm allowed to be loved by even just one human on this planet, regardless of my past inaction that led to the hurting of one of my family members, then I am not in checkmate.
    I guess my point with this rambling is this: I would love to be able to look at everything in my life, including what has been eating me for almost three years now, and be able to say that I love it all, that I'm content. Unfortunately, I can't see myself doing that anytime soon, but I do hope to achieve something like that one day.

    • @SandyCove143
      @SandyCove143 2 года назад

      Byron Katie - please check out her ‘work’. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional/a choice. It’s not the snake bite that kills people, it’s the venom/poison. Forgiveness, is a beautiful thing, including forgiving oneself.

    • @adelinazakirova5347
      @adelinazakirova5347 2 года назад +2

      Everything that had happened leaded you to the present state of mind. The fact that you understand your mistakes and you feel guilt and shame about them - says a lot about your present self. It means you understand, you want to change and you already have changed. Your present self doesn’t need any suffering from the mistakes you made. You learnt your lesson, if you didn’t, you wouldn’t feel ashamed. You learnt and now it’s time to let go. You can’t change the past, but you can change your future. One day, when you ready, give your love to the past self and make a funeral for them. Sometimes when you go forward and let go you can’t keep dragging your past self with you, because it’s not you. And it doesn’t mean that you have to forget about your mistakes, no. You understood your lesson and now it’s time to prove to everyone that you have changed. Become the best version of yourself, act from the love and soul, and not from ego and mind. I believe, the person who was hurt by you, wouldn’t want you to suffer your whole life. You got this, we all got this. Without our mistakes, we wouldn’t be who we are today with the knowledge that can prevent from the same mistakes in the future.

  • @vikkio92
    @vikkio92 2 года назад +1

    I wasn't aware of this philosophy, but I was actually already following it. I call it "embrace the suck". Far less fancy than "amor fati" I'll admit LOL

  • @justinosolisjs
    @justinosolisjs 3 года назад +4

    There are people who CHOOSE to seek this kind of knowledge. If you're reading this, you're one of them. I thank you.

  • @cadenrobinson7375
    @cadenrobinson7375 3 года назад +2

    6:50 Life is like a trip.
    Saying yes will make it more enjoyable.

  • @ION1S_XD
    @ION1S_XD 3 года назад +202

    “The opponent who smiles while being beaten is probably a masochist.”

    • @gingerj719
      @gingerj719 3 года назад +9

      You have a point! LOL

    • @edgarpereira4982
      @edgarpereira4982 3 года назад

      lol

    • @amkstj
      @amkstj 3 года назад +8

      Or maybe that was the way he found to extract enjoyment out of a painful thing. Which in fact is the point of this whole thing

    • @yagami1918
      @yagami1918 2 года назад

      Or maybe he received an enlightened to delight in the showers of pain because pain is what makes us stronger.

  • @alexfletcher1567
    @alexfletcher1567 Год назад

    This made me cry. What a release.

  • @BobBarkerHeretictoScientism
    @BobBarkerHeretictoScientism 3 года назад +72

    He never had a clue, that he would be held in high esteem one day. This irony, is another example of Nietzsche's downtrodden luck. These negative happenstances, are exactly what fashioned him into such a profound thinker and influence upon Western culture. This mans last chapters of life, especially, are pretty unreal. What his sister did to his name, another example.. Poor guy

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 3 года назад +16

      Those who produce profound works of art and philosophy are often un- or under-appreciated during their lifetimes, receiving deserved appreciation and fame only after death

    • @brushstroke3733
      @brushstroke3733 3 года назад +1

      I bet he always imagined he would be held in high esteem during his own life and was frustrated that no one seemed to recognize what he saw so apparently. His beliefs about other people not recognizing his brilliance and genius probably prevented the situation from ever changing. He got what he believed, as we all do.

    • @StuperrDuck
      @StuperrDuck 3 года назад +4

      What did his sister do?

    • @ejazshaikh2863
      @ejazshaikh2863 3 года назад +1

      @@StuperrDuck She changed his writings according to Nazi narrative.

    • @stevedriscoll2539
      @stevedriscoll2539 Год назад

      But how can you say poor guy now that he is recognized as one of the greatest philosophers and in the most salient sense, he lives

  • @lisothegreat1401
    @lisothegreat1401 2 года назад

    In The Lows I Remind Myself…I love it. It must be in order for me to grow and understand

  • @alterecho8261
    @alterecho8261 3 года назад +13

    "The human is the only species that must be encouraged to live."

  • @robertyoung2279
    @robertyoung2279 Год назад +1

    I`v spent a life time in regret, with all the expirences that take place for one to make such a statement from the earliest memories. The two hardest phases to live with in the English language is " IF ONLY & " WHAT IF.
    Accepting what is and letting go of the rest, somewhere in there one can find peace and love, not a forced peace and love but, a true seeing of things because they are Beautiful it is Beautiful but ones eyes must be opened, the eyes of your spiritual heart, the Beautiful sound of a small child`s laugh, seeing some couple truly in Love, a sunny day, a cloudy day, Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder.

  • @kiriyasu4964
    @kiriyasu4964 3 года назад +12

    He simply convert life's pain in to a pleasure.

  • @everaced
    @everaced 2 года назад

    I usually dislike seeing comments about loved ones dying because they remind me that it could happen in my own life. Well, it did... or is going to. And the night I received the news, this video was recommended to me.
    Thank you for helping me process things and move forward.

  • @yowgert_9424
    @yowgert_9424 3 года назад +6

    Thats funny, im 16 years old and i have already accepted this 😂 im a very philosophic fellow so ive already concluded amor fati or something like this in my journals. I reflect on life super much 🙂

    • @pushparahi5681
      @pushparahi5681 2 года назад +1

      How long you been journaling though? Its great to write journals

    • @yowgert_9424
      @yowgert_9424 2 года назад

      @@pushparahi5681 well, if you count both the days where i havent done journaling and days where i have from the day i started, it would be ever since i was like 8, but ive been serious about it since start of 2021 so around when i was 15 and a couple months, so that would be a year and a couple months now. Over the course of since i was 8 up to now, i have collected about 19 notebooks of different shapes and sizes with drawings here and there in different quanitities. But throughout the year and a couple months, ive written about 1 thick book of squared maths paper (abt 100 pages) and a half. Also i have alot of paper with writing inserted in the journals which i use as reference to when i dont have my journal arround and decide to express myself on paper. Yeah im pretty proud of that though it feels like its nearing up to 2 years. For the first 6 months of when i was abt 15 i was really consistent and did a bit of journaling here and there during school breaks and lunches.(didnt have anything else to do really and i was forced to sit in one specific canteen area along w the rest if the year group which felt entoxicating) but then i kindof stopped for a couple months, and then ive been randomly journaling whenever i felt like it but its not consistent at all. Mainly because ive gotten busy af at school lately

    • @pushparahi5681
      @pushparahi5681 2 года назад +1

      @@yowgert_9424 im really happy that you are journaling since 8 and also keeping them all. Journaling is really helpful for you, mind and life as well. I read a quote somewhere that " life without documentation is a life wasted". I also journal and it really made me clear headed in a lot of things, im not consistent either haha but i sometimes read my old stuff and relive the past. Even Jordan Peterson recommends writing

    • @yowgert_9424
      @yowgert_9424 2 года назад +1

      @@pushparahi5681 thats good to hear, i comoletely agree with the statement of documentation, im planning on taking that to the next level and actually make an animated movie or series or something that symbolises my life as a side project, im really passionate about it and art and stuff.

    • @pushparahi5681
      @pushparahi5681 2 года назад

      @@yowgert_9424 That's awesome :)

  • @B1u3Boy
    @B1u3Boy 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing this video. Learned of a new outlook that caught my attention and struck a nerve. Rn I needed to hear this.

  • @quantumphantasm6354
    @quantumphantasm6354 3 года назад +11

    I appreciate the fact that Amor Fati is the result of his lifetime of struggle, and i admire the idea for what it is... but it's not for me. Just as i don't wish to negate it, neither will i strive for it. I do not wish to become a lover of pointless misery. I would rather just be miserable, and be honest with myself and others about that fact, and about why it is true. Ultimately, there is nothing to achieve.

    • @michaelhughey5947
      @michaelhughey5947 3 года назад +1

      This, exactly!
      Life should never be a daily struggle of miserable survival. I have seen people come out of war zones with that same look of weariness that I have when I get up in the morning. It’s ridiculous because I’m not dodging bullets and bombs. Amor Fati is not for someone who is truly trying to achieve a life worth living.

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад

      Yes and then you will just exist - just another statistic

    • @rein29233
      @rein29233 3 года назад

      But the point is to look at misery as something else that is to take it positive or perhaps enjoy it. I think u misunderstood this or not understood it at all.

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад

      @@rein29233 You don't enjoy misery - what Nietzsche was saying we must fight to overcome it - we WILL be miserable in our lives and quite a lot of times we "WELCOME" it - meaning that if a Kid wants top grades or marks, he knows that much hard work lies ahead, he will have to make sacrifices, while the other kids are having fun, he might be stuck at home studying
      And we see this when we aspire, dream - nothing will fall on top of our heads - we will have to work for it, sacrifice and never know if all the hard work will ever pay off

  • @clarkkentsuperman5911
    @clarkkentsuperman5911 Год назад +1

    We get through the bad times in order to live through the good times... some people happen to have more bad times than good...

  • @bayremdridi5131
    @bayremdridi5131 3 года назад +9

    Can you upload the names of the musical pieces you use in your videos? Both this video and the one about schopenhauer contain some of the most beautiful and well chosen pieces I've ever heard and yet I don't know their names.
    Your channel is among the best on YT. Thank you.

    • @voiddread317
      @voiddread317 3 года назад +4

      Vague by Amaranth Cove

    • @Algunoshacksdewildon
      @Algunoshacksdewildon 3 года назад

      @@voiddread317 Do u know the 4:36 song?

    • @Violetcrime
      @Violetcrime Год назад

      ​@@voiddread317 Thank you, and bless your ear for music. May you be out there, answering such Vague musical quandaries yet still.

  • @heavenlywarning
    @heavenlywarning Год назад +1

    *Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work! 💪*

  • @highliving-animatedvideos5831
    @highliving-animatedvideos5831 3 года назад +80

    It’s counter intuitive in a hyper-competitive society fueled by consumerism.. but acceptance (which has many forms) truly is the key to happiness. Agree? ❤️🚀🌙

    • @Dagdagandag
      @Dagdagandag 3 года назад +1

      No.
      Accepting yourself is pure nihilism.
      You need to work on something imperfect or you'll suffer.
      You can accept what is outside of that to not burn out, but what is tolerance more than a betrayal of your own values?
      If it was already included in your values it wouldn't require tolerance.
      If your values are your ideal values, tolerance would mean exchanging the better option for a weaker one.

    • @crane5037
      @crane5037 3 года назад

      No

    • @jayantpratapsingh
      @jayantpratapsingh 3 года назад +8

      @@Dagdagandag that is not the kind of meaning/understanding implied by ‘acceptance’ in contexts like these and I assume, neither would’ve OP meant that by its usage. Although, I wouldn't prefer to go as far as "happiness" instead more stability and calmness, perhaps.
      A bit of krishnamurti might help one understand what "acceptance" signifies here, let me quote some pieces from the book, “Think on these things”:
      why are you afraid to be what you are? Why don't you start with what you are and not with what you should be? Without understanding what you are, merely to try to change it into what you think you should be has no meaning.
      Like most people, you have ideals, have you not? And the ideal is not real, not factual; it is what should be, it is something in the future. Now, what I say is this: forget the ideal, and be aware of what you are. Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is. THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ARE IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PURSUIT OF WHAT YOU SHOULD BE. Why? Because in understanding what you are there begins a spontaneous process of transformation, whereas in becoming what you think you should be there is no change at all, but only a continuation of the same old thing in a different form. If the mind, seeing that it is stupid, tries to change its stupidity into intelligence, which is what should be, that is silly, it has no meaning, no reality; it is only the pursuit of a self-projection, a postponement of the understanding of what is. As long as the mind tries to change its stupidity into something else, it remains stupid. But if the mind says, "I realize that I am stupid and I want to understand what stupidity is, therefore I shall go into it, I shall observe how it comes into being", then that very process of inquiry brings about a fundamental transformation.
      How ever much I may try to become intelligent, my stupidity will remain. I may acquire the superficial polish of learning, I may be able to quote books, repeat passages from great authors, but basically I shall still be stupid. But if I see and understand stupidity as it expresses itself in my daily life-how I behave to wards my servant, how I regard my neighbour, the poor man, the rich man, the clerk-then that very awareness brings about a breaking up of stupidity.
      You see, the basic problem is that of change. When you ask, "What is intelligence and how is one to become intelligent?" it implies a concept of what intelligence is, and then you try to become like that concept. Now, to have a formula, a theory or concept of what intelligence is, and to try to mould yourself according to that pattern, is foolish, is it not? Whereas, if one is dull and begins to find out what dullness is without any desire to change it into something else, without saying, "I am dull, stupid, how terrible!", then one will find that in unravelling the problem there comes an intelligence freed of stupidity.
      You try it. Watch yourself talking to your servant, observe the tremendous respect with which you treat a governor, and how little respect you show to the man who has nothing to give you. Then you begin to find out how stupid you are; and in under standing that stupidity there is intelligence, sensitivity. You do not have to ‘become’ sensitive. The man who is trying to ‘become’ something is ugly, insensitive; he is a crude person.

    • @jayantpratapsingh
      @jayantpratapsingh 3 года назад +4

      @@Dagdagandag
      The function of education, then, is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time. And this is a most difficult thing to do: whether you are ugly or beautiful, whether you are envious or jealous, always to be what you are, but understand it. To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble it would be marvellous; but that never happens. Whereas, if you look at what you actually are and understand it, then in that very understanding there is a transformation. So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment.
      (Again, from the same book)

    • @ramaraksha01
      @ramaraksha01 3 года назад

      It depends on your goal - when young we were full of dreams and aspirations and knew that fulfilling those dreams will mean lots of pain & suffering
      Kid A wants top grades and he knows he needs to sacrifice free time, playing sports, work hard, study hard, long late nights, less sleep, more worry
      Kid B doesn't care, he wants to be happy, so he sleeps in late, catches a late night movie, watches sports, plays sports
      No parent would urge his kid to be like Kid B
      But then we get old, our outlook changes - the best days are behind us, now we are done with aspirations and dreams - we slow down both mentally and physically and now comes the "stop and smell the flowers, be happy"
      Just a function of age

  • @REALREELS.2
    @REALREELS.2 9 месяцев назад +2

    SO IN SIMPLE TERMS "it is what it is and beautiful "

  • @chancerobinson5112
    @chancerobinson5112 3 года назад +7

    “Consciousness is the last thing to arise; therefore it is the most fragile.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He (Nietzsche) knew himself better than anyone alive and attained a nobility I could never experience.”. - Sigmund Freud
    Fun Fact: Ecce Homo, (behold the man) are the words that Pontius Pilate used when he gave Jesus to the mob for cruxifixction.