The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spake Zarathustra to his heart and ran away. But the one behind
followed after him, so that immediately there were three runners, one after
the other--namely, foremost the voluntary beggar, then Zarathustra, and
thirdly, and hindmost, his shadow. But not long had they run thus when
Zarathustra became conscious of his folly, and shook off with one jerk all
his irritation and detestation.
"What!" said he, "have not the most ludicrous things always happened to us
old anchorites and saints?
Verily, my folly hath grown big in the mountains! Now do I hear six old
fools' legs rattling behind one another!
But doth Zarathustra need to be frightened by his shadow? Also, methinketh
 Thus Spake Zarathustra |