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Suffering Enables Happiness
- Pity focuses attention outward on imagined suffering and can lead to melancholy and diminished joy.
- The pursuit of eliminating suffering risks erasing the contrast that makes happiness possible.
Remain Faithful To The Earth
- Remain faithful to the earth by investing love, knowledge, and giving in this world rather than chasing an afterworld.
- Serve the ideal of the overman as a future-oriented meaning for earthly life.
Overman As Infinite Horizon
- Being 'midway' means standing between our beastly past and an infinite overman horizon that motivates endless ascent.
- The overman functions as an ever-receding telos that justifies striving and sacrifice.