Life – Writer Between Worlds

Quote of the day

“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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Quote of the day

“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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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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Quote of the day

“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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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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“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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“<<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

“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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Doubts (haiku)

When I turn around and leave, will my leaving leave a dent in your life?
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Winter Haiku

The spirit of the world speaks through the silences between two snowflakes.
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Ce suntem?

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