“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tag: identity
pain (less) gold?
birthday thought
‘You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear’.
– Neil Gaiman
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lifedance
Nunc
I search for the real
Between you and the other
“Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic
Up on Top
by Olav Hauge
After stumbling a long time over impossible trails
you are up on top.
Hardship didn’t crush you, you trod it
down, climbed higher.
That’s how you see it. After life has tossed you
away, and you ended up on top
like a one-legged wooden horse on a dump.
Life is merciful, it blinds and provides illusions,
and destiny takes on our burden:
foolishness and arrogance become mountains and marshy places,
hate and resentment become wounds from enemy arrows,
and the doubt always with us becomes cold dry
rocky valleys.
You go in the door.
The pot lies upside down in the hearth,
it sprawls with hostile black feet.
Schopenhauer on human existence
‘In my 17th year, I was gripped by the misery of life, as Buddha had been in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The truth was that this world could not have been the work of an all loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in their sufferings.’
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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First the soul
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
― Charlie Chaplin
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