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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Religion (…) does not refer to a system that has necessarily to do with a concept of God, or with idols, or even to a system perceived as religion, but to any group-shared system of thought and action, that offers the individuals their frame of orientation and an object of devotion. Indeed, in this broad…
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Snow
Read more: Snowthis year, the soil too needs to rest: it needs silence, space, slumber. the furrows have covered their zillion ears with blankets of untaintedness and are frozen: flat white flags spread over the landscape, pierced by last year’s severed stalks. deaf to the bombs and the bullet-words and the bluster,the grabbing and the coveting and…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Auch ich hatte mich früh an die Stille, ans Schweigen gewöhnt. Wer viel redet, verhüllt etwas. Wer konsequent schweigt, ist von etwas überzeugt. (…) Ich hatte das Gefühl, in unserem Leben fehle etwas. Die Liebe, sagst du… Die opferbereite Liebe. Ja, das sagt sich so leicht. Später habe ich erfahren, dass die mit falschen Ansprüchen…
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Meditation
Read more: Meditationmeet me in the depths of my belly, my stillness of a thousand breaths – and I shall birth you symphonies of silence. those schools of words swimming away? let them. the truth is always quiet – stealthy, un-schooled. in my belly the truth swells like a blue tsunami.
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Quotes of the day
Read more: Quotes of the day“Sie sagte das ganz ruhig, ganz gleichgültig, wie es nur alte Leute vermögen, die schon Abschied nehmen, da sie den wahren Sinn der Wörter erkannt haben und nichts mehr fürchten und auch die menschlichen Konventionen nicht höher schätzen als die Wahrheit.” (English translation: She said this very calmly, quite indifferently, as only old people can,…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The words ‘mean’, ‘mind’ and ‘memory’ share common roots, so any account of meaning that does not begin in the raw stuff of human consciousness is off to a poor start. The left hemisphere on its own puts words together using often complex syntax and makes a kind of sense of them. But the real…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” Hermann Hesse – Siddharta (1922)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“<<Genau das ist es, was die Frauen nicht glauben, nicht verstehen, nicht wissen können>>, sagte er und schien zu den Sternen zu sprechen. <<Dass es eine Art von Mann gibt, der keine Liebe braucht. Der auch so leben kann.>>Er sprach ganz unpathetisch, zwar aus großer Entfernung, aber völlig natürlich. Ich wusste, dass er die Wahrheit…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Left hemisphere attention is sharply restricted in space and time (…). It tends towards precision, but at the expense of depth. It is no longer true to the expansive, always moving, always changing, endlessly interconnected nature of reality. One way of putting it is that the left hemisphere can provide some sorts of knowledge about…
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