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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“All too often we love ourselves on the basis of a story of our own specialness or uniqueness. We could call this “the Facebook version of love”, in which the word simply means “like a lot” and/or “strongly approve of”. The great significance our culture places on individual difference is spiritually problematic because on the…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The self-help industry has perpetuated the story that the purpose of human life is psychological and/or spiritual growth, and that this growth – despite never being clearly defined – inevitably leads to the actualization of your innate potential and the manifestation of the “best version of you”. This is in fact a very modern idea.…
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Jenseits des Nennbaren
Read more: Jenseits des NennbarenJenseits des Nennbaren liegt der Anfang der Welt. Sein und Nichtsein erzeugen einander. Der SINN faßt alles Bestehende in sich. Besser ist es, das Innere zu bewahren. Der Geist der Tiefe stirbt nicht. Er entäußert sich seines Selbst, und sein Selbst bleibt erhalten. Des Wassers Güte ist es, allen Wesen zu nützen ohne Streit. Ist…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“By focusing attention on the so-called “objective” consensus about a given object, our culture takes the most superficial layer of reality to be the primary one and thus fails to realize that it is the sum total of the different perspectives on the object that constitute its multidimensional reality. It is the so-called subjective dimension…
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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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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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Parents
Read more: Parentseach time a child is born, three people are born: not only the baby, bloody, fresh out of its womb; but a mother and a father are born from the woman + lover and the man + lover that existed before. from now on, they shall leave their “ways” behind and get lost and stop…
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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“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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The nature of things
Read more: The nature of thingsOn the ground, insects toil away. Above, the forest is dying. Gnarled and unnaturally twisted, it scratches the horizon with skeletal claws; combs it like it’s a skein in need of untangling. On the ground, insects toil away. Above, the forest is dying. Between them, people walk, setting dogs on each another; people walk with…
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