Space is important. But not infinite. Space has its limits. When you put fish in a fish tank, their life is conditioned by space. This conditioning is strong. Depending on the size of the fish tank, the fish can reproduce more or less, they can even eat each other, they can also stop growing physically... Space is important, but it has its limits. The same thing happens with time. And the fact is that limits make us smaller, they prevent us from growing.
There is in our time a contempt for limits. In man there are limits. And man grows if he overcomes them. There are metal limits (the thought object), natural limits (there are too many examples), psychological limits (fear, to say one), spiritual limits (sin), etc. All these limits dwarf us. Living in thought is not living. Living in fear is not living if those fears are not overcome. To live in sin is to live in lies, in slavery to evil.
Therefore, it is very convenient to abandon the limits because then we would not live in fishbowls but in the sea, we would fly like eagles and not like poultry, we would go outside instead of settling in the cave of security. Abandoning limits means: first detecting them, and then deciding whether we want to live within those limits or abandon them to get to know other dimensions that go beyond the limit, which implies a risk.
Within the limits -which in the end make us better if we overcome them- there is one that is especially difficult to abandon: the mental limit. What is more, its non-overcoming has meant that philosophy as such has not grown, but has stagnated within the limits. And we already know what happens when one lives in the pond: only those who feed on the rotten survive in it.
In thinking the limit occurs when one thinks that thinking is the most decisive thing, as happens with idealism, psychologism, etc.; the limits of the will occur when one wants to think that the will is the key to everything, like voluntarism, and all the anti-Hegelian philosophies like those of Nietzsche, Shopenhauer, Sartre...; the sentimental limits that occur when one puts the key to man in feeling, as could happen with hedonism, narcissism, etc.., reduce the being of man to what they feel, and the one who lives in these limits decides to be what he wants to be from the feeling.
For some years now, special emphasis has been placed on the character of the person, as if it were the most decisive thing... However, character is what remains of the person, the last thing... and precisely because it is the last thing, it cannot be the most decisive thing.
It seems that the decisive factor has been placed in the faculties, in the human powers: thinking, willing and feeling. In my opinion, the key cannot be in something that is not in action. The key to what we are cannot be in what we can be, but rather, we will have to rediscover what we are, in order, as Pindar said, to become what we want to be, but starting from what we are: people.
Evidently, thinking, will and feelings play a fundamental role in the life of every person. However, thinking, will and feeling are faculties, powers... Yes, the most important powers of man, but after all, powers... and as such, they need something to actualize them. And that which actualizes them is indeed decisive.
We have lived for a long time in the fishbowl of potentialities, we have lived, and continue to live, in the limits that dwarf us. We have lived in dark caves, narrow fishbowls. We have given a lot of importance to the potential, to what the self can do or not do, think or not, build or destroy, feel or not... But... where is the majesty of man? Man is much more than his faculties, his works, his fears and his limits.
The truth of man makes man free. Free from what? From limits. But that would be to live like God, who alone is unlimited, someone might tell me. And so it is. It is our greatness or majesty to live like God... That is what we were created for.
