Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Limbă, discurs, comunicare

  • 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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    “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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    “… nothing that can be said in words is complete or absolute Truth. The Real cannot be adequately captured by language, and therefore all attempts to do so are approximations that have a relative utility. An approximation in language (i.e., a narrative) is useful insofar as it ultimately leads you beyond language to a desired…

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    “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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  • Agency (haiku)

    life presses its thumb down on me; I push back with words, song: ex-pression.

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  • Cento

    you don’t know rain or trees, while I am certain rain is sometimes coarse-grained and it burns like a match. this night is dark: you will have already forgotten that I understood evil too late. had we known that a wolf was wading through this poem, that a wolf was waiting for us at the…

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  • Quote of the day

    “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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    “The words ‘mean’, ‘mind’ and ‘memory’ share common roots, so any account of meaning that does not begin in the raw stuff of human consciousness is off to a poor start. The left hemisphere on its own puts words together using often complex syntax and makes a kind of sense of them. But the real…

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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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    On strangers and strange ideas: “Arrival of the stranger, concretely presented in mythology, constitutes a “threat to the stability of the kingdom” (…). The stable meaning of experiential events, constrained by the hierarchical structure of group identity, is easily disrupted by the presence of the “other”, who practically poses a concrete threat to the stability…

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  • Citatul zilei – Despre magie

    Citatul zilei – Despre magie

    “Magicianul se ocupă azi de relații publice, de propagandă, de prospectarea pieței, de anchete sociologice, de publicitate, informație, contra-informație și dez-informație, de cenzură, de operațiuni de spionaj și chiar de criptografie, această știință fiind în secolul al XVI-lea o ramură a magiei. (…) Pe nedrept istoricii au tras concluzia dispariției magiei odată cu apariția științei…

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