THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 436 ~ refutes my words a thousand times over, still I cannot accept its refutation.” Such was the longing for truth which welled up in Engels when he was young; yet he was unable to find fulfillment; disillusioned with conventional Christian religion, he became lost in economic and political philosophies. But, in truth, man has a much more fundamental need than these. First and foremost, he needs to know his own nature and the nature of the world he lives in, how he came into this world and what will happen to him after death. More than anything else, it is man’s nature to seek answers to these questions. The world in which he lives is lacking in nothing; it lacks only the answers he seeks. The sun provides him with heat and light, but he does not know the sun’s true nature, or why it has been put to his service. The wind is a source of life for man, but he is not able to stop the wind in its course and ask it what it is, and why it acts as it does. Man’s own being stares him in the face, but he remains in the dark as to what he is, and why he has come into this world for. It is beyond the human mind to work out answers to these questions. Yet answers he must have. Not everyone