The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air

Kirkgard: It's not until you abandon all hope of the delusion of human meaning that you can ever start seeing the world clearly. The person that learns to see the world in a wiless sort of way is only able to access an extremely important aspect of life, he says. Kirkgard: Maybe by being aware of our very human tendency toward immortality projects of all varieties, maybe we recognize where the desire to dehumanize or silence another group is actually coming from.