These ontological miracles

I guess there are just two things I wanted to talk about besides language. One is the emphasis on being. Let’s just start with this: here we are, you and I, together. What brought us here now? The most fundamental preconditions for each of us to be here now are, first, that anything is at all, second, that such beings as human beings exist, and third, that each of us here actually exists and is in this room right here now. These ontological miracles are required for you and I to be here together. Existential thought and practice counsels us to remember and hold near the awareness that it need not be so, and that that it is so is the wonder of all wonders. I consider this one of the greatest strengths of existential psychotherapy in general, and Daseinsanalysis in particular, namely their steady gaze at the miracle of being at all.