If you move to the animal, in a way you satisfy part of your being, but immediately in that satisfaction dissatisfaction arises, because the opposite part, your future, is just contrary to it. If the divine is satisfied then the animal is in discontent. If the animal is satisfied then the divine is in discontent. So whatsoever man is doing – whatsoever I say – he is never satisfied in it, never content, because two diametrically opposite existences meet in him. It was somewhere and it will be somewhere, but right now it is nowhere, just hanging in the air. Man is just a step from the animal to the divine – and a step is nowhere. This creates a conflict, a constant struggle to realize, to be something. Man exists as a tension between these two: that which was and that which can be. And he is not both, because the past is no more and the future is yet to be. He is both because the future is his – he can be divine. He is both because the past is his – he was animal. And between these two exists man – the shadow of the past and the dream of the future. And the future is still the future, it has not yet come it just a dream, just a possibility. The past has passed, it is no more just a shadow of it lingers on. Animal belongs to his past, divine belongs to his future, and this creates the difficulty. “Man is Janus-Faced – animal and divine both.
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