Seeing Existence in the Absurd

A Pause

Three lines that stopped me

I recently read a passage from "It's All Okay — That Is Awakening" that struck me:

Point One

A label, or an existence?

When we see a person, an event, a phenomenon, we naturally rush to judge it — good or bad, high or low, reasonable or not. See someone in a rough spot, and the first thing that surfaces is often pity, or a quiet verdict that something has gone wrong.

But this passage reminds me: from a wider view, he is first not a label — he is an existence.

This isn't a call to be cold, or to stop helping people, or to dismiss human effort. It's a reminder that before we rush to judge, to fix, we might pause and ask ourselves: Am I seeing the thing itself — or my label for it?

Point Two

The infinite holds what we haven't understood yet

If the infinite truly exists, it can't only contain what we consider beautiful, correct, orderly, reasonable. It must also hold confusion, contradiction, absurdity — even things we can't yet make sense of.

So the harder we try to remove all absurdity, to force the world into one consistent shape that matches our own standards, the further we may drift from the truth of life. Real growth, maybe, isn't just eliminating what's "bad" — it's learning to see a deeper existence in what's imperfect, unreasonable, or falling short of what we expected.

Point Three

We've mistaken "longer" for "progress"

The closest example of this absurdity is how we treat the length of a life. Modern medicine does everything it can to extend it — that's a good thing, worth respecting. But if we treat "delaying death" as the same thing as "progress," do we miss a bigger question: death can't be avoided in the end, so have we used the time to understand any wisdom beyond it?

Most of the time, the answer is no. We keep watching the length of time on the clock, without really living — always waiting for a "later," until we finally have to face the end. Isn't that, perhaps, the more absurd life?