Questions
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Beyond language and vocabulary
Thank you, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Where would I be without your poetic tongues?And Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, and Alexander Pushkin, who can be more inspiring to dive and fly in life through your cultural, and equally transcendental wordings?You all understood something beyond our physical being which has had your…
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Where do I come from? Where am I going?
Those do not appear to me to be the sense, purpose or basis for thinking, believing, and being. Being here, now, present, attentive, responsible, that is to me the space in which I ought to develop my talents, vibrate fully, dive deep, search to learn, here, now. To think to know where I come from,…
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Personal Lexicon: “as days go by”
I find there to be a misunderstanding about the content packaged in days go by. Poetically there is a pleasing sound to it, or it may convey the sense of an unavoidable something, perhaps even wisdom. However, in the context of an individual development, days go in. Thankfully!
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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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On writing a book, I wonder…
Is it an expansion of my being, or mere storytelling? Is it a wonderful story, or literature? Is it addressing a problem, or a solution?
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What happens after death?
Another question I find much more crucial, much more relevant, much more exciting, much more profound, much more spiritual and intellectual: what happens before death?
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What is attractiveness?
I do not know. But it appears to be mainly metaphysical, although appearances appear to be merely physical.
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wondering what to do in times of wanting too much
sort? hurry? inhale deep? smile?
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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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to touch
or to be touchedthrough eyesthrough earsthrough memoriesthrough fleshomnipresentlyYet, what occurs between the vibrant plea — “do not touch me”and the gentle will of “touch me”?What transpires between defense and willingness?
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Answer
A wonderful and beautiful friend, named Basma, has just responded to my question as to why I document things I do not know. Those flowers I photographed and posted minutes ago, are known as Japanese rose, seven-sisters rose, many-flowered rose, rambler rose. Botanically it is a Rosa multi-flora. The answer is therefore, I document what…
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