ENGLISH – Writer Between Worlds

Dream

what do you dream of, the wandering sorcerer asked, and I told him.he shook his head. this is not good, he said. it would be better to dream of gazing into the soul of an animal, staring everything that’s alive in its fierce, wild eye and being devoured by quiet.
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. (…) “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” Henry Bergson
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“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
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“Evidence from a number of sources suggests that the right hemisphere contributes the majority, not just of emotional and social intelligence, but also of what is ordinarily meant by intelligence (IQ) – cognitive power, or g. This appears to be particularly true among children and adults of the highest intelligence.” Iain McGilchrist – The Matter…
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“Sprache ist so ein verlässliches Signal für unsere Statuszugehörigkeit, weil wir so wahnsinnig gut darin sind, Sprache zu lernen. Das heißt, unsere Sprache wird wirklich zur zweiten Natur, wird wirklich tief eingebaut in unserer Psyche.” (English translation: Language is such a reliable indicator of our social status because we are so incredibly good at learning…
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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self–transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every…
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“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

this 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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“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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“Many of these same young people (…) had not progressed from freedom from to freedom to. They simply rebelled without attempting to find a goal toward which to move, except that of freedom from restrictions and dependence. Like that of their bourgeois parents, their motto was: ‘New is beautiful,’ and they developed and almost phobic…
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Meditation

meet 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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“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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