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The impurity of individuality (haikus)
Read more: The impurity of individuality (haikus)chasing the me all over, I failed to sit with the them-ness of others – lost presence, lost fullness, lost bliss. fissures and shards will not make a vase.
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The Zen way to see the truth is through your everyday eyes. It is only the heartless questioning of life-as-it-is that ties a man in knots. A man does not need an answer in order to find peace. He needs only to surrender to his existence, to cease the needless, empty questioning. The secret of…
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Dharma – Artha – Kama
Read more: Dharma – Artha – KamaÎntâi, prețuiești cele mai presus de tine: te închini zeilor, aduci ofrande, respecți societatea. Fără astea nu ești nimic, un om în izolare, un hoit în descompunere pe-un drum. Apoi, te cultivi cu grijă pe tine: intelectul, curajul, frumosul, averea. Aduni înțelepciune, cunoaștere, caracter neclintit – bogății strălucind înmiresmate. Iar în cele din urmă, te…
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Ambition
Read more: AmbitionDigging your nails into the fabric of the world, you ripped its silken texture with your actions. Now, behold your designs: the beauty that might have run through you lies darkened and bloodied and drained. Poem inspired by LaoTse (Tao Te King)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Wahre Worte sind nicht schön, schöne Worte sind nicht wahr. Tüchtigkeit überredet nicht, Überredung ist nicht tüchtig. Der Weise ist nicht gelehrt, der Gelehrte ist nicht weise. Der Berufene häuft keinen Besitz auf. Je mehr er für andere tut, desto mehr besitzt er. Je mehr er anderen gibt, desto mehr hat er. Des Himmels SINN…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The closet is not just for gay people. (…) Everybody’s closeted and everybody plays pretend. They all walk around saying ‘I am’, even though they have no idea who they are. What they’re often saying is, ‘I want to make you feel comfortable, so I’m going to contort myself into who I think that you…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Reason answered, ‘It is he or she who is the more virtuous who is the superior being: human superiority or inferiority is not determined by sexual difference but by the degree to which one has perfected one’s nature and morals.’” Christine de Pizan – The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin, ebook, p. 23)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The ego and the self are those catastrophic states of being in which the Living Man allows himself to be imprisoned by the forms that he perceived by himself. To love his ego is to love death, and the law of the Virgin in infinite. (…) The libido is the definition of cadaverous desire, and…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“One does not give birth in pain, one gives birth to pain: the child represents it and henceforth it settles in, it is continuous. Obviously you may close your eyes, cover up your ears, teach courses, run errands, tidy up the house, think about objects, subjects. But a mother is always branded by pain, she…
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Corsica 2026
Read more: Corsica 2026I returned to Corsica after 21 years, the same way a grown woman revisits her first love trying to understand what might have been and what she missed back then.Corsica outside the tourist season is the kind of rough gem you explore at the pace of your own breath. It is a proud mare no…
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Quotes of the day
Read more: Quotes of the day“Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realizes you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you. (…) “When the street becomes your life, you no longer expect anything, hope for anything. But I expected something from love.…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The person who said: love is a matter of the epidermis was undoubtedly referring to this inferior knowledge of the body, to the fact that possession is possible only under certain physical conditions and for certain human specimens. But the body can reveal more. Beyond voluptuousness, beyond lust, a consummate self-rediscovery is possible in that…
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