There is a longing for something in every conscious being. What that longing is directed towards is often misunderstood, even by the one who feels the longing itself. Some long for more than our current existence, call that religion, but it is an ingredient part of consciousness to recognize that this life is transient and there must be something more. The Ankh of the ancient Egyptians is the symbol of eternal life. Some say it was the earliest of Christian symbols. It was the symbol of the Pharaoh which represented a key to eternal life held by the Pharaoh.
Some say the longing is for love. Some one other than one’s self to communicate with and satisfy the inner feeling of loneliness. But isn’t that related to eternal life? Is not in fact eternal life only found in Love? When I am downcast I feel that need for living, that need for love and I can scarcely distinguish the two. A man may search for love in a woman, so that his gender is completed by her presence, but a woman may also yearn for a man to complete and protect her self from harm. “Is that all there is to a fire” the song goes, and so one sees that there is a longing even in a passion. Perhaps the passion is the longing. The orphan yearns for parents, the child yearns for adulthood, but once found, yearns for the innocence of childhood again.
I guess I’m just a child inside who lost his mother in his second year of life and has ever since searched (suchen) for her in every woman seen (sehen).
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