The fact that moods can deteriorate and change over means simply that in every case Dasein always has some mood. The pallid, evenly balanced lack of mood, which is often persistent and which is not to be mistaken for a bad mood, is far from nothing at all. Rather, it is in this that Dasein becomes satiated with itself. Being has become manifest as a burden. Why that should be, one does not know … Furthermore, a mood of elation can alleviate the manifest burden of Being; that such a mood is possible also discloses the burdensome character of Dasein, even while it alleviates the burden … The fact that it is just as everyday a matter for Dasein not to ‘give in’ to such moods—in other words, not to follow up their disclosure and allow itself to be brought before that which is disclosed—is no evidence against the phenomenal facts of the case, in which the Being of the “there” is disclosed moodwise in its “that-it-is”; it is rather evidence for it. In an onto-existentiell sense, Dasein for the most part evades the Being which is disclosed in the mood. In an ontico-existential sense, this means that even in that to which such a mood pays no attention, Dasein is unveiled in its Being-delivered-over to the “there”. In the evasion itself the “there” is something disclosed … An entity of the character of Dasein is its “there” in such a way that, whether explicitly or not, it finds itself in its thrownes. In a state of mind, Dasein is always brought before itself, and has always found itself, not in the sense of coming across itself by perceiving itself, but in the sense of finding itself in the mood that it has … in a way of finding which arises not so much from a direct seeking as rather from a fleeing.
