When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you! Why? Can you explain?

Question

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you! Why? Can you explain?

Answer 1

Vince professor,

Hal Holbrook said this line to Timothy Hutton in "The Falcon And The Snowman when he was caught selling secret documents to the Soviets. The meaning is loosely interpreted that when you look in the void with no understanding of why it exists, it will back at you to show you why it must be defined. If you do something without realizing it's full implications, then you must blindly suffer it's dire consequences!

Answer 2

I've been intrigued by Nietzsche's quote about the abyss. My understanding is that it's a warning about giving too much attention to evil. But I haven't yet come across a good explanation.

However, other have made similar warnings. For example, Aldous Huxley once wrote that “No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected . . . . The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous.”

Answer 3

We are all part of it.

Answer 4

When you gaze into a mirror, do you not see your own reflection...

Answer 5

I've never found such an abyss

this abyss seems to actually be negative people

don't listen to them

Answer 6

Law of attraction.

Answer 7

I do not believe it does. In the realm of philosphy yes it is true, but in the realm of science I don't believe this to true.

Answer 8

Reality is responsive to consciousness.  What you experience is based on the conflictedness of your 'conditioned' beliefs about self and the world.  This field of consciousness is extremely complex, but cause and effect are never separated.  Dumping the conditioned ego - the defensive identity is the only way out.

Answer 9

"You are what you think about."