the poetic life
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Unnoted Music — I
There is a spiritual space, physical space, mental space between the moment understood as the end of a music piece, and the moment in which no notes are left to be intonated. This moment usually bridges the music performance with the reaction of the audience, customarily known as applause. I question the conditions and conditioning…
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rethinking self
perhaps this “self” is a mere catalyst of what I perceive, of how I perceive, of the memories within me, and all that surrounds me It is not an I — rather the compilation second by second of what transpires through me and my relaying it to others and to myself.
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Prolonging Transcendental States
“Transcendent states are often desperately short-lived: a few moments late at night or at dusk; on a plane or train journey across wide open country. But we can, through certain ingredients (especially lavender, cardamom, turmeric, and cinnamon), access them a little more systematically and thereby loosen the grip of our insistent egos.” In “Thinking &…
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Springing
Paying attention, even by sheer chance, will gently or abruptly reveal the smallness of things that like to go unnoticed. Photographic captures will retrospectively reveal the unnoticed, and be a reminders of how much has gone unnoticed still.
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I submit
I submit, beyondThere is belief, there is knowledge— god, science, love are called I submit, beyondTo dissect into flesh, mind, spirit, consciousnessI submitnot passively Why avoid death, when it may be challenged?The transition might be to ceaseCan I submit?
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Nietzsche’s Risotto
Typically, however much we enjoy eating, we do not normally think that what we put on our plates is particularly meaningful. One person who took a different view was the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In January 1877, while staying in Italy, he wrote a letter to his mother mentioning that he had discovered…
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