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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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Quotes of the day

“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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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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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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“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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Winter Haiku

The spirit of the world speaks through the silences between two snowflakes.
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Quote of the day – Die Sünde der Erfolgsgenügsamkeit

“Der Bau dieses Hauses war aber bei weitem nicht das Schwerste. Viel schwerer war es, die Menschen zu finden. (…) Ich nahm endlich solche Leute, die nicht Schreiner waren, und sich erst hier unterrichten sollten. Aber auch diese hatten, wie die früheren, eine Sünde, welche in Arbeitendenständen und auch wohl in anderen sehr häufig ist:…
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“Die Hysterie ist die unvermeidliche psychopolitische Verfassung durchmediatisierter Populationen. Sie hat sich infolge der nationalstaatlichen Lebensformen überall durchgesezt, wo Menschen es lernen mußten, im Strom medial konstruierter Dauerkommunikationen zu leben und sich auf die rhythmischen Themenwechsel der Zeitgeister einzurichten.” P. Sloterdijk – Nach Gott (S. 311-312)
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“People need their group identification, because this identification protects them, literally, from the terrible forces of the unknown. It is for this reason that every individual who is not decadent will strive to protect his territory, actual and psychological. But the tendency to protect means hatred of the other, and the inevitability of war –…
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“Piaget’s value system considers rule by cooperation a more satisfactory equilibration in human relations than rule by authority. (…) Rigid traditionalists assume that the answer to the question ‘what is the good?’ can be – has been – answered permanently, and concretely, with the list of laws. (…) Adherents of tradition rely on the attribution…
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