- Johan? Have we missed something important? - All of us? - No, you and I. - What would that be? - At times I can read your mind, and I feel such tenderness that I forget myself. Without having to efface myself. It's a new sensation. Do you understand. - I understand. - Johan?… Continue reading Have we missed something important?
Tag: Human Condition
Before “Listen!”
… listen
Insecurity /
Insecurities are not the ones radiating insecurity but the desperate efforts to hide them.
When observing life objectively, there is no urgency
Considering that a boy called Jesus was sent onto our species after a very long time — millions, is said — and two millennia proceeded his birth, already that the prophet Mohamed was revealed around the same timeand that millions of believers for thousands of years are still awaiting the MessiahWhat is the urgency, really?
Truth, Chatter
There is an inner desire to speak what is true speak what is sincere in the heartsincere to the heartin what is true und understood to the intellectIf the desire lives within to utter what is truemuch less will be utteredand much less needs sorting between what iswhat seemsand what fools
The asking is not for you to imagine a walk in my shoes
It would be unfair. They might kill you. The cobbler does not know me, and I know not of him. Yet, I wear them in sincerity.
If the time does not come…
we will go there
The Artist
In society — of the animal, of the spirit, of culture — amongst all its members, the artist is one of the few working daily with the raw beauty and raw challenge of being in life, while inspired to digest, express, and share it.
Life in shoes (or life and shoes)
uncomfortable shoes need be set aside -- the uncomfortable life propels life
in dependence
the brightness of one is yet at the mercy of the surrounding ones perceiving
interrupted / innerupted
— interrupt: to be stopped, hindered by another person; to break someone else’s flow, uniformity, pattern, continuity; to block the actions of another — innerupted: to erupt from within, to interject one’s own state, to abruptly change oneself It is with trembling soul, anxious flesh, and curious mind that I announce the birth of an… Continue reading interrupted / innerupted
god missing himself
These days are energy, inspiration —-No! energy —- period!Here is an inner confidence in claiming that inspiration is a constant. It comes from all around, it comes in memories waiting to be re-unpacked, occasionally unpacked for the very first instance. It happens in any moment of passive, and wild, and deep observation of whatever flew… Continue reading god missing himself
Call it what you may…
God, Yahweh, Allah, Nature, Energy…, know that Being is above. But know well, too that Being is beneath. An all-encompassing essence lies beyond, and within.
Honesty is seldom naked
It is often hiding
My Resolution…
is not a set goal. I am resolute.I live in resolution.I vibrate in resolution.I fall asleep, and stand awake,stand asleep, and fall awake,not resolute to a goalbut in the trajectory —- that of building.My resolution is not a set goal—- not set, not a state to be reachedbut beinginhaling and exhaling the joy and beautythat… Continue reading My Resolution…
at sixty-three
On this path taken (and given) I have no regretsNot truly Today I am the master of lifeBut starting I was a lost slave of life
Surrender
Out of the mouths of many beings in transition — coming out of their hearts or out of their intellect — I hear that surrendering happens in the moment of doubt, tribulation, in the face of difficulties. This notion makes me doubt two things: —- that acceptance, surrendering, or giving in completely onto life, is… Continue reading Surrender
o·blige /əˈblīj/
An obligation has a source. It may be an internal power, it may be an external one. Ideally, having and feeling obliged ought to be from an internal standpoint, as the character wants standing purity in being self. That which I do wishes to coincide with what is expected of me by my peers and… Continue reading o·blige /əˈblīj/
being
Angel, Wanderer, Janitor
Eating towards either godside
— one may abide by the common notion that central to eating is a need to subside hunger — one may otherwise eat, not merely in order to escape starvation, or be nourished and avoid ailments but rather in pursuit of the joy in eating, in all its stages The latter goes well with either… Continue reading Eating towards either godside