Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Gesellschaft

  • Jenseits des Nennbaren

    Jenseits 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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  • 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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  • Dharma – Artha – Kama

    Întâi, 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

    Digging 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

    “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

    each 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

    “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

    “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

    “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 Gender Dance

    Today is International Women’s Day. Below is a text I wrote a while ago, which sadly remains valid today and sheds some light on the place of women in society, asymmetrical relationships, gender expectations, and the thorny consent issue. It’s my sophomore year in high school. I’m with my class on one of those overnight…

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  • 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

    “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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