April 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself, and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose from the earth lives dimly in my...
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The most beautiful sea: hasn’t been crossed yet. The most beautiful child: hasn’t grown up yet. Our most beautiful days: we haven’t seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven’t said yet…
Nâzım Hikmet Ran
November 2011
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“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
– Khaled Hosseini (via 35bit)
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You know, those stars up there, they might not even exist. I mean, it takes so long for the light to travel here that the stars themselves, they could be gone now. You know? It´s just weird, but they are like a message from back in time. The universe is bigger than we can imagine. I guess it just kind of puts things in perspective. All the stuff that we think is so important when in reality it’s...
October 2011
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“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
– C. S. Lewis
September 2011
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August 2011
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Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush. Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not...
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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost
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I walked up the door, shut the stairs, said my shoes, took off my prayers, turned off my bed, got into the light, all because you kissed me goodnight.
Just Because by Natalie Dorsch
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July 2011
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My grandmother was very sly woman - sly as a fox. Her wilyness sometimes went so far, that her deeds became rather wicked. Of course, being her grandson, I could be rather sly and wicked sometimes too. Therefore, we had fights quite often. I used to misbehave or try to annoy her, and she was trying to influence my mother, so that she would punished me; she was often threatening me: “I go...
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“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963
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A teacher who had to speak about life to teenage boys, came up with such analogy:
“You see boys, life it’s a lot like a Super Mario game; you don’t start to play this game, and then instead of moving around, just standing at one spot. That would be boring, and time in game is limited anyway, so you’d die very soon if you wouldn’t move. But to move around,...
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“Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be...”
– Mark 4:25
February 2011
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Butterflies and stars
They called him star boy, and he was born on first month of year with two four and one zero. He was a lovely boy, now all grown up, but actually just a kid in a clothes of a man. Even he, himself, often didn’t believe in his own disguise. It was Thursday, which felt like Tuesday when he was thinking about her again. Let’s talk about her now; she was butterfly girl, at least he called her so, it’s...
September 2010
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“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more...”
– Anais Nin
June 2010
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Frog in a well
The first thing we need to understand is, that people in mayoralty has need, to explain things that surround them, since unexplained things, fright them. In the long history, there was a lot of explanations, for all the phenomena that was happening, and for the life itself. We aren’t new at that; also, we aren’t special, when we believe (so strongly) that we figured everything out....
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Life...
The thing about life is, that you must fall in love with it, you must start perceive it, as lovers perceive each other — with tenderness and awareness of every detail, with enthusiasm and expectation of every moment. To spend this time here is great reward; our life offering us so much possibilities, about which we’re totally unaware, while being trapped in our everyday thoughts, which...
April 2010
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You better start running, find a place to hide, since things are different here. You can’t fight back. You’ll be lost, you’ll be falling down, into infinite caverns. The air is polluted - almost impossible to breath. Men without faces will follow you, they’ll get you - they’ll eat your brains like zombies; women with hearts riped out - emptiness in their eyes -...
March 2010
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I once bought four yogurts - they seemed really delicious, I could have eaten them all at once. But don’t know why, I decided I’ll not eat them, I decided to save them instead. On some point they expired, so I couldn’t do anything else, but throw them away.
I once had a girlfriend, and oh, how I became bored with her. Lying in that bed, nothing to say or to do anymore. I just...
February 2010
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Know yourself
We are, what we think we are, that’s what Buddha said; you can trust that this statement is true, and you can take it literally. Now, here’s the first problem: instead of trusting ourselves, and believing in ourselves - we believe what other tell us. You’ll maybe say now, that a person is defined by his/her environment, therefore - there’s no choice. But, even though...
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Be Grateful
There is so many things, for which we all can be grateful, if for nothing else, we can start, with the realization, that we’re - by some miracle - alive, and conscious. Where is life and consciousness, there is always potential, of happiness (and even enlightenment), so we can be grateful, even if only for that potential.
In dark times of my life, I was grateful for light days and short...
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To Be Alive
The realization of reality would lead into liberation. People have no idea how far from reality they are. We have no idea, what a big illusion is this, what we perceive as “reality”.
I won’t say I’m some kind of exception, some kind of superman, who is liberated, free, illuminated, enlightened in state of nirvana, - no, I’m not. I’m not even close. On other...
January 2010
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Where Everything is Music Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole world’s harp should burn up, there will still be hidden instruments playing. So the candle flickers and goes out. ...
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The Relationship
First of first, I believe love should be part of relationship, however, love is much wider than the relationship itself. I actually see quite a lot of selfishness and limitations (+hate,jealousy,etc..) in many relationships, while I consider love to be wide, open and pure, as I wrote about it in one of my previous posts.
We could imagine relationship as soup, and love is water. So it’s...
December 2009
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Wise up!
Lets talk about suffering, about difficulties in life and about “overcoming” them, shall we? I can’t imagine with what else to start, if not with Buddha’s first noble truth, which saying (simply enough) that life is suffering, meaning that sooner or later we’ll suffer somehow. Buddhism of course, offering answer on how to end suffering, actually - that’s the...
November 2009
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Nationalism
There was a man, living happy life, in happy country, until one day he was informed, that the war started - they were attacked by cruel north neighbors. So, the man was ordered, to go and fight, and he obeyed of course; he took a gun, and go to fight, he was killing enemy soldiers, and hating them, and loving his own. On some point he was wounded quite badly, his death hour was near, but even...
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Who am I?
Through all of my life they were teaching me completely useless things. School - what a waste of time is it, when it failed to inspire student, to constantly learn, but first and mostly learn about himself. We were learning so much about drunken and depressed writers, about dates when they were born, when they wrote another depressing poem or book, and when their luckless life finally ended.
We...
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Love is....
Not so long ago I heard a song about love, in it was one verse, saying: “love is pain”; it’s commonly accepted nowadays, that love is pain, suffering, fear. We really can read about that everywhere, we can see that in movies, we can hear that in a lot of songs. That’s so real for us, that we think, we actually feel it: “ohh, I’m crying now, because of...
October 2009
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FAQ: Vegetarianism
In this quite short time since I’ve stop eating meat, I came across of quite a lot of interesting ideas and questions about vegetarianism. So let me try to answer (comment on) some of them.
So, in general, what’s the reason to stop eating meat? — Well, I think reasons vary from person to person, and I wrote about my (personal) reasons. I believe there is, however, one general...
June 2009
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The New Religion
We finally understand everything, and with understanding and predicting, came control.
— The New Religion by VxMxPx
Now, there’s no need for God anymore, since indeed, we’re Gods in this world.
We’ll follow only one thing, since our heads, as our hearts and souls are blank, and our faces - invisible, flat - we’re nonexistent. We’ll follow only one thing,...
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Vegetarian
Our believes change through life, for some things we say we have overgrow them; that’s the simplest answer on the question, why did I decided to stop eating meat. That’s of course not the only answer, but when I try to find in myself any deep and strong reason, something I could offer as an answer, which would be simple enough to understand and short, often I can’t find it....
February 2009
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The Path
I saw for a moment surrounding blueness and infinity, and then they said to me, that I should watch where am I walking, so I won’t trip on something. I listen their advice, and start walking on the path, which was smooth and obvious. It had no branches, just a few light turnings, it was dry and clean, and so trodden that I got the feeling, that for centuries no one step off it.
But I heard...
July 2008
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Encounter
The tough day has finished. Everything I want to do now, is to lie down, to take a book and to read. I started to think about the content of it, can I comprehend it?
The sky is grey and the clock is showing almost three, it seems more though, seems like evening actually. Snowflakes are twirling in a soft but very cold wind, I like it, even though it’s very cold.
I’m at the parking...