Something To Ponder...

Do you want, my brother, to go into solitude? Would you seek the way to yourself? Pause just a moment and listen to me.
"He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is guilt": thus speaks the herd. And you have long belonged to the herd.
The voice of the herd will still echo in you. And when you say, "I no longer have a common conscience with you," then it will be a lament and an agony.
For see, that agony itself was born of one and the same conscience: and the last glimmer of that conscience still glows on your affliction.
But you want to go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? Then show me your right and your strength to do so!
Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motivation? A self-propelling wheel? Can you also compel the stars to revolve around you?
Ah, there is so much lusting for the heights! There is so much convulsion of the ambitious! Show me that you are not one of the lustful and the ambitious!
Ah, there are so many great thoughts that do no more than a bellows: they puff up and make emptier.
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
Are you one of those entitled to escape from a yoke? There are many who cast away their final worth when they cast away their servitude.
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! But your eye should clearly show me: free for what?
Can you give to yourself your evil and your good and hang up your will above yourself as law? Can you be judge for yourself and avenger of your own law?
It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star thrown forth into the void and into the icy breath of solitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra