Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Interpretation
Dwelling goes beyond mere occupation of a space; it involves nurturing an environment for growth and development.
Heidegger's quote suggests that true dwelling is about more than just living in a physical space; it is about fostering a nurturing atmosphere where both individuals and ideas can thrive. This reflects a deeper connection to our surroundings and emphasizes the role of care and creativity in our relationship with the places we inhabit.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about community development and the importance of creating supportive environments.
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
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