Joy
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A shallow red sea, with a gentle yellow island afloat.
Let me tell you a story. It is not the most beautiful one I have told, not the most inspiring, not the most moving to the listener but it did take place in front of my eyes. Because of what I saw, what I wanted, what I did, and what I tasted, it is a…
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— revisiting the blueberry-basil-cornbread
Many European and US-American years went by, without me fasting. Each morning I had some form of breakfast, light or intense, as celebration or as mere quotidian digestive flow. However, moments during these few years, in which I felt physically and mentally filled, kept telling me that some cleansing was needed. Feeling filled does not…
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Wiener Schmäh, the mindset
Once more, this morning I sensed that impulse in the mindset of freezing frames, commonly known as photographing. Simultaneously, I was overwhelmed by the thought of delighting in the air of the city of Vienna. Not precisely to relive what the Viennese take pleasure in with their palate but rather to set myself in their…
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Reduction, expansion, fragility, and protection
This thing we call life is just a live-performance. It is not one reality, for we go through only one version of it — the individual one. An instruction booklet to life can not be printed, not ahead of birth, not during the performance, not while getting off the stage. The first couple of years…
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Please!
Learn to find joy, wherever possible.
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Is joy the chicken or the egg? (A gentle reiteration on the question on a question)
“Life is suffering, and we spend our lives looking for happiness.” This was her expressed view during our conversation. Is it not fair to say that life is pleasure, happiness, joy, and we erroneously spend energy and passion in search of suffering? — Notes on a Clubhouse conversation
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Life
I just took a deep breath of joy
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Hedonistic Pleasure
He is the true conqueror of pleasure, who can make use of it without being carried away by it, not he who abstains from it altogether. Aristippus of Cyrene (c. 435 – c. 356 BC)
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