A Minute Of Meditation

"You used to feel passion and called it evil. But now you have only your virtues left: they grew out of your passions. In the end all your passions became virtues; your devils became angels. Now, nothing evil will come from you any more, unless it is the evil that comes out of the fight between your virtues. Oh my brother, if you are lucky enough to have only one virtue and no more, you will pass over the bridge more easily" Today's meditation is motivated by the words of German writer Friedrich Nietzsche written in his late 1800's novel "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." Nietzsche is commonly connected with Nihilism, but please take some time to think about his book again.  He uses the real Persian philosopher Zarathustra as his main character to discourage conventional traditions. Was his only message to criticize the lack of substance behind society’s customs as pointless? Or was he also encouraging you to experience the reality of the physical world as an unconventional but more effective path to true morality? D