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© stav B 2010stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-85169656486064135792020-05-08T00:30:00.003+01:002020-05-08T00:30:54.528+01:00i read somewhere... 31 december 2019...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
without ignoring the calamities/ problems/ frustrations/ disasters in the world we have all created and are responsible for... but since it is the last day of the year and the last day of a decade, allow me to throw some positivity around, a little glitter, a little sparkle, a little hope, as the fight and the love continue before we all perish...</div>
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i shall share with you my last, for 2019, i read somewhere, full of hard work, the unlearning of the bullshit, the total destruction of anything toxic in your life, from the government to any relationships, including the one with yourself and all the revelations, reflections, results and directions, you'll be able to decipher and unravel and finally practice, when and not if, you get ready to take the leap...</div>
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i wish you all a better, different, spectacular start; stay healthy, safe, creative, radical, resistant and keep swimming... <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="heart emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;"><3 span=""></3></span></span></div>
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ps. this is not to be considered as some self serving mumbo jumbo motherfucker; just a little reminder of what alive, thinking and doing can achieve. x</div>
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I invite you to say/ think this:</div>
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love everything about you, your beauty and pain, hungry soul, wounded longing, flaws and fears.<br />do not betray or deceive yourself<br />believe, forgive and adore yourself<br />accept, amuse and redeem yourself</div>
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feed and nourish your body and spirit<br />be with people who deserve us and vice versa<br />communicate with a yes and a no<br />respect our planet and its animals and plants, the rivers, lakes, oceans, skies and forests<br />spread the love<br />smash the bullshit patriarchy and all the shackles enslaving us all<br />believe that fortune will visit, to eradicate limitations and encourage braver horizons</div>
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devote yourselves and fight hard to cultivate<br />beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness, and hope</div>
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"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just<br />as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity<br />and kindness and style."<br />Rebecca Solnit</div>
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know the problem, solve the problem and provide antidotes to the world's poisons, with love and power</div>
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"We should feel excited about the problems we confront and our ability to<br />deal with them.<br />Solving problems is one of the<br />highest and most sensual of all our brain functions."<br />Robert Wilson</div>
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remember<br />you can make a difference<br />stay humble and learn from it<br />help and serve your fellow person<br />take yourself serious and have fun with it too<br />remember the coin has two sides; a good and bad<br />take the leap, recognise your fears, how freeing<br />thank yourselves for having the nous to identify the idiocies and then smashing them</div>
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we are human, we are a cluster of everything fluid and messy, we are victorious.</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-28127566993328610542020-05-08T00:26:00.002+01:002020-05-08T00:26:23.711+01:00i read somewhere... 25 december 2019...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
before i disappear into my own festive embrace in the kitchen (cooking up a festive feast) and on the sofa, by the tree (for the yearly treat)... i am spreading some positivity, warmth and love, today and everyday from this day forward. <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="heart emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;"><3 span=""></3></span></span></div>
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with my festive special 'i read somewhere':</div>
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"Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you and who have no agenda for your reform.</div>
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Change yourself in the way you want everyone else to change</div>
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Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be jerks</div>
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Write a love letter to your evil twin during a lunar eclipse</div>
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Dream up wilder, wetter, more interesting problems</div>
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Change your name every day for a thousand days</div>
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Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues</div>
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Kill the apocalypse and annihilate Armageddon</div>
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Brag about what you can't do and don't have</div>
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Bow down to the greatest mystery you know</div>
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Make fun of people who make fun of people</div>
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Scare yourself with how beautiful you are</div>
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Pretend your wounds are exotic tattoos</div>
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Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees</div>
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Commit a crime that breaks no laws</div>
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Sip the tears of someone you love</div>
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Give yourself another chance</div>
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Play games with no rules</div>
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Relax and go deeper</div>
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Mock your fears</div>
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Drink the sun".</div>
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Fall in love with your life over and over... <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="heart emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;"><3 span=""></3></span></span></div>
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I wish you all a wonderful time with your selves and loved ones.<br />Keep warm, keep safe and remember the ones who have less than you or nothing at all.<br />Think of those who will never see festivities because of wars and displacement.<br />Think of those who are ill.<br />Think of those who have departed this realm.</div>
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And remember how fortunate you are for being healthy, alive, prosperous, loved and loving.</div>
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Keep swimming and keep the aspidistra flying; we have work to do in the bettering of our world.</div>
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"Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues<br />Pretend your wounds are exotic tattoos<br />Refuse the gifts that infringe on your freedom<br />Shun sacred places that fill you with boredom<br />Keep in mind it's bad luck to be superstitious<br />The official story's always fictitious<br />Pump up your karma with idiot laughter<br />The promised land's here, not in some hereafter</div>
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We are searching for the answers<br />so we can destroy them and dream up better questions</div>
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Use your third eye to watch TV<br />Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees<br />Think with your heart and feel with your head<br />Spit a mouthful of beer as far as you can<br />Kick your own ass and wash your own brain.<br />Make fun of your fears and heal your own pain<br />Play games with no rules, save your own life<br />Push your own buttons and be your own wife</div>
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We are searching for the answers<br />so we can destroy them and dream up better questions</div>
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Plunge butcher knives into accordions<br />Forgive yourself of all your mistakes except one<br />Commit funny crimes that don't break any laws<br />Shock yourself with how beautiful you are.<br />Tell jokes to clowns and cook feasts for chefs<br />Sing songs to the birds, and kill your own death<br />Mangle your anger, transform it to pleasure<br />Change your name, steal your own treasure</div>
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Go wash some water<br />Mock your own hypocrisy</div>
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Go burn some fire<br />Brag about your perplexity</div>
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Go wash some water<br />Advertise your secrecy</div>
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Go burn some fire<br />Overthrow reality"</div>
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"May I feel all I need to feel in order to heal; may I heal all I need to heal in order to feel." Marguerite Rigoglioso</div>
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remember: full moon in sagittarius the 21st and mercury turns direct the 22nd. brace yourselves, as the whooshing changes are imminent.<br />and have a great day. everything is all right and you are amazing. x</div>
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i read somewhere:</div>
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"When I love / I feel that I am the king/ queen of time / I possess the earth and everything on it / and ride into the sun upon my horse." Nizar Qabbani</div>
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and remember: "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being".</div>
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a great task to live up to.</div>
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have a great day. x</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-18908794196523888692020-05-07T23:53:00.000+01:002020-05-07T23:53:10.568+01:00i read somewhere... 7 november 2017...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere:</div>
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"Every day, you have to wade through a relentless surge of soul-less facts.<br />The experience tends to shut down your sense of wonder.</div>
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Every day, you're over-exposed to cynical narratives that have been sucked free of delight and mystery. That's why you have to make such strenuous efforts to keep your world enchanted."</div>
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"The punk ethic is rebellious. It transgresses<br />conventional wisdom through "a cynical absurdity that's redeemed by being hilarious." Brian Doherty.<br />In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is "love is all you need." It seeks a<br />"manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour; inspiring but also soft and gelatinous." Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that's both skeptical and celebratory."</div>
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“This is a massive awakening. We’ve already seen an awakening taking place in the last few years. It will intensify. We’ve seen marvellous demonstrations in a variety of different cities... I think that we have to have a real sense of commitment to being a hope in such a bleak moment. And we can turn things around.”</div>
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Apply all this as you wish and create your own revolution to ripple through universally. The time is now, now is the time. <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="heart emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /></span></div>
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"To be wild is not to be crazy like a criminal or psychotic, but<br />mad as the mist and snow." It has nothing to do with being<br />childish or primitive, nor does it manifest as manic rebellion<br />or self-damaging alienation.</div>
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The marks of wildness, are a love of nature, a delight in silence,<br />a voice free to say spontaneous things, and a vivacious curiosity in the face of the unknown" Robert Bly</div>
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"You're a gorgeous mystery with a wild heart and a lofty purpose. But like all of us, you also have a dark side -- a part of your psyche that snarls and bites, that's unconscious and irrational, that is motivated by ill will or twisted passions or instinctual fears.</div>
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It's your own personal portion of the world's sickness: a mess of repressed longings, enervating wounds, ignorant delusions, and unripe powers. You'd prefer to ignore it because it's unflattering or uncomfortable or very different from what you imagine yourself to be.</div>
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Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. If you disown a part of your personality, it'll materialise as an unexpected detour. Carl Jung</div>
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Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil . . . ."</div>
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"Be brave and forceful, gentle and graceful. Free your sublimely imperfect, riotously intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its mysterious glory. Love your body exactly as it is.</div>
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Praise your body. Thank your body. Tell it you adore its uncanny majesty; you yearn to learn more of its secrets; you promise to treat it as your beloved ally.</div>
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Study your body's magic. Exult in the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate and hone its fierce animal elegance.</div>
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"I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself." Friedrich Nietzsche</div>
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Summer Solstice. 21 June 2017. on the day of the national, if not national, protest, stay strong, stay together and stay focused, as the purpose is one.</div>
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"This is the time of the rose, blossom and thorn, fragrance and blood. Now on this longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into the dark. The Sun King grown embraces the Queen of Summer in the love that is death because it is so complete that all dissolves into the single song of ecstasy that moves the worlds. So the Lord of Light dies to Himself, and sets sail across the dark seas of time, searching for the isle of light that is rebirth. We turn the Wheel and share his fate, for we have planted the seeds of our own changes and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun."</div>
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"To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.</div>
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Foresight vs ignorance and exaggerated delusions; It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.</div>
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Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is your birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.</div>
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Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.</div>
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"The secret of life," is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is; it must be something you cannot possibly do. henry moore.<br />What is that task for you?</div>
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Brag about what you can't do and don't have. Confess profound secrets to people who aren't particularly interested. Pray for the success of your enemies while you're making love. Change your name every day for a thousand days.</div>
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Freedom is in the unknown. If you believe there is an unknown everywhere, in your own body, in your relationships with other people, in political institutions, in the universe, then you have maximum freedom. john c. lilly</div>
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You're invited to celebrate Unhappy Hour.<br />It's a ceremony that gives you a poetic license to rant and whine and howl and sob about everything that hurts you and makes you feel bad.</div>
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During this perverse grace period, there's no need for you to be inhibited as you unleash your tortured squalls. You don't have to tone down the extremity of your desolate clamours. Unhappy Hour is a ritually consecrated excursion devoted to the full disclosure of your primal clash and jangle.</div>
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You dive into your darkness for no more than 60 minutes, then climb back out, free and clear.</div>
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That's where you let your pain tell you every story it has to tell you.<br />You let your pain teach you every lesson it has to teach you.<br />But then it's over. The ritual ordeal is complete.</div>
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If performed regularly, Unhappy Hour serves as an exorcism that empties you of psychic toxins, while at the same time; miracle of miracles; it helps you squeeze every last drop of blessed catharsis out of those psychic toxins.</div>
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You'll develop a knack for cultivating smart joy and cagey optimism as your normal states of mind."</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-27719398653063323642020-05-07T23:13:00.000+01:002020-05-07T23:13:07.053+01:00i read somewhere... 8 august 2018...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere:</div>
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"There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,<br />trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.<br />That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, learn to do<br />everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're<br />feeling deeply." Aldous Huxley</div>
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"Be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops into<br />your mind, bare your teeth and growl, "Get out of here or will<br />rip you to shreds!<br />If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a<br />torch and sword, screaming "Begone, foul spirit, or I will<br />burn your mangy ass!"</div>
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Don't tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt trip you.<br />I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated!<br />I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all<br />threats to my integrity!"</div>
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Mercury is retrograde until August 18.<br />And this what it really means, do not listen to the morons, who understand nothing about celestial activities:</div>
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Mercury Retrograde is a natural and even helpful recurrent cycle, 70 days each year, natural rhythm, just like the seasons. At these times, we get the opportunity to RETHINK, REVIEW, and REVISE our thinking and our written and spoken communication. If we use it to RE -EXAMINE the flow of our work and our day-to-day lives, these little mishaps can teach us something about Right Action. They can be a valuable corrective that helps us prevent more serious and ongoing errors in our work that might otherwise be compounded over time. Used correctly, these intervals can enhance our productivity and the quality of our work and life, in particular.</div>
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only 5% of the world's population lives in a complete democracy and it is not even correct.</div>
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apply democracy into your everyday lives and personal orbit.<br />ensure that people you care about feel equal to you and have confidence that you will listen to and consider their needs, and believe they have a strong say in shaping your shared experiences.</div>
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and use any social platform with care and nous, empathy, love and education; not bullying, hate and bigotry.</div>
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times are demanding of more of our kindness and open mind; let's utilise this.</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-15044987772589419372020-05-07T23:07:00.000+01:002020-05-07T23:07:31.863+01:00i read somewhere... 21 august 2018...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere:</div>
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(this is a love week and beyond... )</div>
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.<br />Elizabeth Barrett Browning</div>
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Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.<br />Sark</div>
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Love is the only game where two can play and both win. Erma Freesman</div>
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Love is a great beautifier.<br />Louisa May Alcott</div>
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Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbours, your enemies, and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even galaxies. Mary Ann and Frederic Brussat</div>
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I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.<br />Pablo Neruda</div>
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my fellow vagabond, my tempter and star.<br />George Bernard Shaw</div>
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love is healing and the answer and we all know that for sure.<br />the healing won't happen, as one imagines.<br />the healing will happen, if one tells the absolute truth.<br />all with soft, tender, unruly, elixir kisses, crazy sweet cuddle wrestles, brisk lessons, deep appreciations and ingenious affectionate amazements.</div>
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lots of good work to be done and how fortunate we all are if we get down to it in furtive energy and anticipation.</div>
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i dedicate this little readings to ALL the lovers and love fighters in the everywhere. </div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-31911332716382977592020-05-07T23:03:00.001+01:002020-05-07T23:03:31.018+01:00i read somewhere... 10 august 2016...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere:</div>
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I invite you to say any or all of the following lines out loud:</div>
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I love everything about me</div>
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I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain</div>
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I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing</div>
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I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers</div>
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I will never forsake, betray, or deceive myself</div>
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I will always adore, forgive, and believe in myself</div>
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I will never refuse, abandon, or scorn myself</div>
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I will always amuse, delight, and redeem myself</div>
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So listen up. We'll make it brief. You're at a crossroads analogous to a dilemma that has baffled your biological line for six generations. We ask you now to master the turning point that none of us have ever figured out how to negotiate. Heal yourself and you heal all of us. We mean that literally. Start brainstorming, please.</div>
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Love thrives when neither partner takes things personally, so cultivate a devotion to forgiveness and divest yourself of the urge to blame.</div>
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Love is a game in which the rules keep changing, so be crafty and improvisational as you stay alert for each unexpected twist of fate.</div>
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Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems.</div>
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Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.</div>
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Love is never a perfect match of totally compatible saints, so don't let sterile fantasies seduce you away from flawed but fecund realities.<br />Love is not a low-maintenance machine, so work hard on cultivating its unpredictable organic wonders.</div>
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Love is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hollywood, so don't let your romantic story be infected by the entertainment industry's simplistic, sentimental myths about intimate relationships.</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-38186910626177330482020-05-07T23:00:00.001+01:002020-05-07T23:00:41.377+01:00i read somewhere... 23 august 2016... <div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere:</div>
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Whatever you choose to focus your attention on, you will get more of it. If you dwell on the good things you have already had the privilege to experience, you will expand your appreciation for their blessings, which in turn will amplify their beneficent impact on your life. You will also magnetise yourself to receive further good things, making it more likely that they will be attracted into your sphere. At the very least, you will get in the habit of enjoying yourself no matter what the outward circumstances are.</div>
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Bear in mind that you are a great wizard. You can use your powers to practice white magic on yourself instead of the other kind. The most basic way to do that is to concentrate on naming, savouring, and feeling gratitude for the blessings you do have—your love for your kid, the pleasures of eating the food you like, the sight of the sky at dusk, the entertaining drama of your unique fate. Don't ignore the bad stuff, but make a point of celebrating the beautiful stuff with all the exuberant devotion you can muster.</div>
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Speak the following lines out loud:<br />I love everything about me<br />I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain<br />I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing<br />I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers</div>
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I will never forsake, betray, or deceive myself<br />I will always adore, forgive, and believe in myself<br />I will never refuse, abandon, or scorn myself<br />I will always amuse, delight, and redeem myself.</div>
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and remember:</div>
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"Every act of genius, is an act contra naturam: against nature." Indeed, every effort to achieve psychological integration and union with the divine requires a knack for working against the grain. Carl Jung</div>
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The great secret to becoming enlightened, is "to walk in all things contrary to the world." Jacob Boehme</div>
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"The basis of the spiritual approach to life, the foundation of the everyday practice of a person who lives the life of obedience to esoteric law, is the reversal of the more usual ways of thinking, speaking and doing." Paul Foster Case</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-2077225431305536702020-05-07T22:55:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:56:02.056+01:0015 september 2013<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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"If everything seems under control, you're probably not moving fast enough." Mario Andretti<br />
1. If you're not pretty much always half-confused, most likely you're not thinking deeply enough.<br />
2. If you're not feeling forever amazed, maybe you're not seeing wildly enough.<br />
3. The truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and outrageously abundant.<br />
4. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it's a stream of smoke.</div>
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"I was like a mole in a suburban backyard. I had just one little path I trod each day: to the compost pile and back. I chewed on orange rinds and leftover cabbage. I was tamed by the comfort of my familiar environment, content to have a narrow vision. But then I was eaten by a hawk, and became part of a wild, free body. Now I perch on the tops of trees and the peaks of roofs. I survey giddy-wide horizons, from the river to the mesa and far beyond. I have a wealth of choices. Where to fly? What to hunt? Who are my allies? My thoughts breathe deep, like the slow explosion of sun on the morning lake."</div>
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freeing the heart; loving again and back... yes? xx</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-72101314910908197162020-05-07T22:51:00.005+01:002020-05-07T22:51:59.316+01:00i read somewhere... 8 may 2018...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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today's mood.<br />i read somewhere...</div>
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love rules - the love rules - the rules of love (some)<br />from vincent, leo, emily, sark, rainer, blaise, erica, frederick and mary, pablo, emma, anais.</div>
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"I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."</div>
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"Everything I understand, I understand only because I love.<br />Everything exists, only because I love."</div>
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"Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."</div>
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"Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love<br />ideal."</div>
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"For one human being to love another is the most difficult<br />task. It is the work for which all other work is mere<br />preparation."</div>
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"If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."</div>
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"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth<br />fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the<br />trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."</div>
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"Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family,<br />your neighbours, your enemies, and yourself. And don't stop<br />with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even galaxies."</div>
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"To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a<br />single honey's sweet."</div>
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"The most vital right is the right to love and be loved."</div>
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"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an<br />inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a<br />strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as<br />you wish without having to step outside it."</div>
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"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way<br />of the<br />imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't<br />work."</div>
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experiencing aloneness, i discover connection<br />turn to face my fear, i meet the warrior in me<br />open to my loss and pain and ignorance, i remind me of myself and purpose<br />surrendering into emptiness, I find endless fulfillment<br />if i flee, I am pursued<br />if i welcome, i am transformed</div>
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"I do want to create art beyond rage. Rage is a place to begin, but not end.<br />"I do want to devour my demons—despair, grief, shame, fear and use them to nourish my art. Otherwise they'll devour me."<br />Sandra Cisneros</div>
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be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the<br />midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.<br />do not believe what your read in sold out to greed and immorality, papers.<br />trust your gut.<br />do your thing.<br />be thankful. be grateful.<br />and breathe.<br />the sun is shining, times are challenging; stay safe.</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-7538776512961768922020-05-07T22:46:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:46:07.011+01:00i read somewhere... 19 february 2016<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
I read somewhere: "Life's always at a crossroads. Narrow is the path that leads to the way you want to go, and only a few people follow it."</div>
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And remember: Don't get stuck in. And do whatever you do, intensely.</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-41810202868987871792020-05-07T22:42:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:42:30.241+01:00i read somewhere... 29 october 2018<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
i read somewhere (thought and wrote accordingly):</div>
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emotional and spiritual food.<br />the influences that make you stronger<br />the people who see you for who you really are<br />the situations that teach you life-long lessons<br />the beauty that replenishes your psyche<br />the symbols that consistently restore your balance<br />the memories that keep feeding your ability to rise to each new challenge. then, pay it forward.</div>
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do your best in every single thing you do<br />uphold the highest possible standards in every aspect of your life.</div>
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sustain impeccable levels of integrity<br />be fiercely honest, fair and kind<br />do not obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence<br />respect yourself and others and try to do what you love from this day forward or later - goal set up - at least 51% of the time. at the very least, i would say 80%</div>
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deepen and intensify your commitment to the most<br />important person in your life: you<br />i am not promoting selfishness here, but encouraging self love and preservation, because:<br />the most important person in the scenario is you<br />no one is going to look after you better than you<br />you cannot love anyone properly, unless you love yourself properly (very old news, this one and it does not need a shaman to master and understand<br />fall in love with yourself, be your own perfect date</div>
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extending that love and more positive for thoughts<br />if we focus on the bad, then we feel crippled in doing anything constructive and change things in our world<br />but if we remain hopeful in bad and challenging times, we'll then resume the energy to act<br />"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and<br />to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory."<br />H. Zinn</div>
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my heart and mind are racing with adrenaline ideas, pain, sorrow, faith, action, hope and love.</div>
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what happened in pittsburgh was an abomination of humanity, but we won't be broken<br />what is happening in brazil, is beyond disgusting, but we shall resist</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-77656889138105901612020-05-07T22:33:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:37:17.452+01:00i read somewhere... 17 april 2018<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
it's a beautiful day. it's important to stay positive, active and pro active, as well as angry and disappointed.</div>
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"If I could have but one wish granted it would be<br />
to live in a universe like this one<br />
at a time like the present<br />
with friends like the ones I have now<br />
and be myself." Rand Howells</div>
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"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected<br />
as questions asked in the wrong way." Alan Watts</div>
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"Dedicating the merit, is an act of radical imagination that has a real impact.<br />
Our radical imagining is that all beings are free, at peace, and awakened. Imagining this stretches our minds and creates the possibility for it to actually happen, because if we cannot imagine something, it's nearly impossible to actualise it.<br />
In this radical imagining, our vision includes everyone equally in our love.<br />
This develops our generosity, loving-kindness, and commitment to the equality of beings. This kind of beneficence does not condone anyone's<br />
destructive actions. Rather it looks toward the possibility of liberating and transforming the ignorance that drives people's destructive actions." Lama Palden Drolma</div>
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love everything about yourself, your beauty, your pain, your longings, your hungry soul, your flaws, your fears, your issues, your power, your mysteries, your freedom...</div>
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escape your chains of suffering and discharge yourself from any debt...</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-52242965463470935512020-05-07T22:28:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:28:38.617+01:00i read somewhere... 14 june 2016...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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"That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal, from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment -- is an essential part and characteristic of beauty."<br />Charles Baudelaire</div>
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"Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well-supplied with blessings."</div>
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"But whether it's our time to ferment in the valley of shadows or rise up singing in the sun-splashed meadow, fresh power to transform ourselves is always on the way. Our suffering won't last, nor will our triumph. Without fail, life will deliver the creative energy we need to change into the new thing we must become."</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-174603791405905862020-05-07T22:24:00.001+01:002020-05-07T22:24:15.101+01:00i read somewhere...27 December 2017... <div class="clearfix fbPhotoSnowliftAuthorInfo _xlu" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 16px; position: relative; zoom: 1;">
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-90048418205713239042020-05-07T22:20:00.000+01:002020-05-07T22:20:18.051+01:0013 may 2016. i read somewhere continues... and so do i... x<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear." James Richardson<br />Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities.<br />You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas.<br />Seek out the tangy, the smouldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance.</div>
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Here are three of our deepest spiritual aspirations:</div>
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1. to develop the capacity to thrive in the midst of raging contradictions;</div>
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2. to be discerning as we protect ourselves from people's flaws while at the same time being generous as we celebrate their beauty;</div>
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3. to refrain from dividing the world into two groups, those who help and agree with us and those who don't.</div>
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"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." Rumi.<br />You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime?</div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.127758351.1912379 -0.7732053 51.8234639 0.5176887tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-37952779652021835262016-02-18T15:33:00.002+00:002016-02-18T15:33:37.229+00:00still here... <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">back soon, with wisdoms and realisations... </span><br />
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-18381536910051273752014-06-03T15:39:00.001+01:002014-06-03T15:39:24.887+01:00an angel departed...<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: fenwick-1, fenwick-2, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 4px;">
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<em>“Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.”</em></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/087805362X/braipick0d-21" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="right" src="http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/conversationswithmayaangelou1.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 9px 0px 3px 15px;" width="190" /></a>The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/maya-angelou/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Maya Angelou</a>, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty. Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, found in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/087805362X/braipick0d-21" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>Conversations with Maya Angelou</em></strong></a> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/conversations-with-maya-angelou/oclc/18876661&referer=brief_results" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>public library</em></a>) — the same magnificent tome that gave us the beloved author’s <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/14/maya-angelou-bill-moyers-1973/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">conversation with Bill Moyers on freedom</a> — in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.</div>
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Reflecting on her life, Angelou — who rose to cultural prominence through the sheer tenacity of her character and talent, despite being born into a tumultuous working-class family, abandoned by her father at the age of three, and raped at the age of eight — tells Rich:</div>
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I’ve been very fortunate… I seem to have a kind of blinkers. I just do not allow too many negatives to soil me. I’m very blessed. I have looked quite strange in most of the places I have lived in my life, the stages, spaces I’ve moved through. I of course grew up with my grandmother: my grandmother’s people and my brother are very very black, very lovely. And my mother’s people were very very fair. I was always sort of in between. I was too tall. My voice was too heavy. My attitude was too arrogant — or tenderhearted. So if I had accepted what people told me I looked like as a negative yes, then I would be dead. But I accepted it and I thought, well, aren’t I the lucky one.</div>
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She later revisits the question of identity, echoing Leo Buscaglia’s <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/19/leo-buscaglia-love-labels/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">beautiful meditation on labels</a>, as she reflects on the visibility her success granted her and the responsibility that comes with it:</div>
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What I represent in fact, what I’m trying like hell to represent every time I go into that hotel room, is myself. That’s what I’m trying to do. And I miss most of the time on that: I do not represent blacks or tall women, or women or Sonomans or Californians or Americans. Or rather I hope I do, because I am all those things. But that is not all that I am. I am all of that and more and less. People often put labels on people so they don’t have to deal with the physical fact of those people. It’s easy to say, oh, that’s a honkie, that’s a Jew, that’s a junkie, or that’s a broad, or that’s a stud, or that’s a dude. So you don’t have to think: does this person long for Christmas? Is he afraid that the Easter bunny will become polluted? … I refuse that… I simply refuse to have my life narrowed and proscribed.</div>
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To be sure, beneath Angelou’s remarkable optimism and dignity lies the strenuous reality she had to overcome. Reflecting on her youth, she channels an experience all too familiar to those who enter life from a foundation the opposite of privilege:</div>
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It’s very hard to be young and curious and almost egomaniacally concerned with one’s intelligence and to have no education at all and no direction and no doors to be open… To go figuratively to a door and find there’s no doorknob.</div>
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And yet Angelou acknowledges with great gratitude the kindness of those who opened doors for her in her spiritual and creative journey. Remembering the Jewish rabbi who offered her guidance in faith and philosophy and who showed up at her hospital bedside many years later after a serious operation, Angelou tells Rich:</div>
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The kindnesses … I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage you to be as strong, as volatile as necessary to make a well world. Those people who gave me so much, and still give me so much, have a passion about them. And they encourage the passion in me. I’m very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.</div>
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At the end of the interview, Angelou reflects on the meaning of life — a meditation all the more poignant as we consider, in the wake of her death, how beautifully she embodied the wisdom of her own words:</div>
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I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences. They may not all be that pleasant, but nobody promised you a rose garden. But more than likely if you do dare, what you get are the marvelous returns. Courage is probably the most important of the virtues, because without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues, you can’t say against a murderous society, I oppose your murdering. You got to have courage to do so. I seem to have known that a long time and found great joy in it.</div>
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The totality of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/087805362X/braipick0d-21" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>Conversations with Maya Angelou</em></strong></a> is a powerful portal into the beloved writer’s soul. Complement it with Angelou on <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/16/maya-angelou-letter-to-my-daughter-home/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">home, belonging, and (not) growing up</a>, her <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/life-doesnt-frighten-me-maya-angelou-basquiat/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">children’s verses about courage illustrated by Basquiat</a>, and her breathtaking <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/04/maya-angelou-recites-phenomenal-woman/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">reading of “Phenomenal Woman.”</a></div>
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stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-53737847748966161312014-06-03T15:30:00.001+01:002014-06-03T15:30:13.161+01:00love continues as always and so is freedom...<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: fenwick-1, fenwick-2, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 4px;">
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<strong>Amelia Earhart</strong> — pioneering aviator, bestselling author, and one altogether fierce lady — must have known that when she sat down on the morning of February 7th, 1931, and penned this exacting, resolute letter to her publicist and future husband, George Putnam. Found in the out-of-print volume <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807067024/braipick0d-21" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937</em></strong></a> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/letters-from-amelia-1901-1937/oclc/8176638&referer=brief_results" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>public library</em></a>), it spells out (typo notwithstanding) exactly what Earhart wanted — and didn’t want — in a marriage, a bold testament to her independent spirit and liberal mindset just before the <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/15/as-always-julia/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">golden age of the housewife</a> and shortly after the era of <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Victorian sexism</a>.</div>
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Noank<br />Connecticut</div>
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There are some things which should be writ before we are married — things we have talked over before — most of them.</div>
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You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby chances in work which means most to me. I feel the move just now as foolish as anything I could do. I know there may be compensations but have no heart to look ahead.</div>
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On our life together I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. If we can be honest I think the difficulties which arise may best be avoided should you or I become interested deeply (or in passing) in anyone else.</div>
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Please let us not interfere with the others’ work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.</div>
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I must exact a cruel promise and that is you will let me go in a year if we find no happiness together.</div>
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I will try to do my best in every way and give you that part of me you know and seem to want.</div>
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The two married that afternoon. Putnam had proposed six times before Earhart finally said her highly conditional “yes.” She kept her last name and refused to be called Mrs. Putnam, even against <em>The New York Times’</em> insistence. They remained together until Earhart’s tragic disappearance in 1937.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is may, with scattered showers and rays and sometimes, at the same time, the sky plays hide and seek with the clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the fight continues and it's all very exciting indeed... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-52867019098166058932013-12-10T12:15:00.000+00:002013-12-10T12:15:14.286+00:00the language of the possible<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: fenwick-1, fenwick-2, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 4px;">
<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/20/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-love-letter/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West</a></h2>
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<em>“…and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.”</em></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001FZGIU/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0001FZGIU&adid=02NKQQTEBP8KV4M4QKXA&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="right" src="http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/greatestloveletters.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 7px 0px 3px 15px;" width="155" /></a>What makes an extraordinary love letter? After Monday’s omnibus of <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/16/famous-correspondence/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">famous correspondence</a>, I revisited a lovely decade-old book titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001FZGIU/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0001FZGIU&adid=02NKQQTEBP8KV4M4QKXA&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time</em></strong></a>, which features missives from icons like <strong>Ernest Hemingway</strong>, <strong>Jack Kerouac</strong>, <strong>Frida Kahlo</strong>, <strong>Franz Kafka</strong>, and <strong>Mozart</strong>, covering everything from tender love to lust to bitter breakups.</div>
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Among them is this 1927 letter from <strong>Virginia Woolf</strong> to English poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vita Sackville-West</a>, with whom Woolf had fallen madly in love.</div>
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Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”</div>
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The gender-bending character in Woolf’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Orlando</em></a>, in fact, was based on Sackville-West, and the entire novel is thought to have been written about the affair — so much so that Sackville-West’s son Nigel Nicolson has described it as “the longest and most charming love-letter in literature.”</div>
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The greatest love letters, of course, aren’t those written for public greatness — they’re the ones penned for one particular trembling heart, honeycombed with private memories and private miracles, written in the language of the possible.</div>
stav Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142751355234716833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303243855897505148.post-54043755154590824682013-11-18T20:00:00.000+00:002013-11-18T20:00:03.026+00:00it's high time i wrote to you... a letter...<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: fenwick-1, fenwick-2, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 4px;">
<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/15/simon-garfield-to-the-letter/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">The Letter Is Dead, Long Live the Letter</a></h2>
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<em>“Everyone writes a letter in the virtual image of his own soul. In every other form of speech it is possible to see the writer’s character, but in none so clearly as in the letter.”</em></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/To-Letter-Celebration-Lost-Writing/dp/1592408354/?tag=braipick-20" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="" src="http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/totheletter.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 9px 0px 3px 15px;" width="180" /></a>My great-grandfather was an astronomer who used to excitedly awaken his kids in the middle of the night and rush them, barely conscious and begrudging, to his telescope on the roof to observe the occasional cosmic marvel. He raised two sons and two daughters — including my grandmother, after whom I was named — through wartime Bulgaria, and tickled them into that lifelong itch of curiosity and wonder. In his final years, great-grandfather Georgi was living by himself in a small apartment without so much as a landline, hundreds of miles away from my grandmother, who by then was raising a family of her own while working as one of the few female civic engineers in the country. When he fell gravely ill in May of 1984, he wrote my grandmother a letter to tell her about the fatal medical prognosis and mailed it across the country. But he made a mistake — on the envelope, addressed to the correct building, he wrote “apartment 2″ instead of “apartment 5,” so the letter never made it to my grandmother. She got news of her father’s death in early June, from one of her brothers. Six weeks later, she found the letter in the building’s shared mailbox, the ghostly neverland of misdeliveries that residents rarely checked.</div>
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A week after that, I was born.</div>
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I never met my great-grandfather, whom I imagine I would’ve admired and loved enormously, but my grandmother’s heartbreaking story of postal misfortune, which she only recently shared with me and which pains her to this day, left me newly shaken with the power of so seemingly simple a thing as a letter — a medium that’s always held <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/letters/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">enormous allure</a> for me, a humble page that blossoms into a grand stage onto which <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/19/frida-kahlo-diary-love-letters/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">great romances</a> are played out,<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">great wisdom</a> dispensed, and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/11/do-scientists-pray-einstein-letter-science-religion/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">great genius</a> manifested. But what exactly is it about a letter that reaches such depths, and what ineffable, immutable piece of humanity are we losing as <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/21/how-to-write-letters-1876/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">the golden age of writing letters</a> sets into the digital horizon?</div>
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That’s precisely what <strong>Simon Garfield</strong>, who has previously explored <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/03/on-the-map-simon-garfield/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">how our modern obsession with maps was born</a>, seeks to illuminate in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/To-Letter-Celebration-Lost-Writing/dp/1592408354/?tag=braipick-20" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing</em></strong></a> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/to-the-letter-a-celebration-of-the-lost-art-of-letter-writing/oclc/828888745&referer=brief_results" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>public library</em></a>) — a quest to understand what we have lost by replacing letter-writing with email-typing and relinquishing “the post, the envelope, a pen, a slower cerebral whirring, the use of the whole of our hands and not just the tips of our fingers,” considering “the value we place on literacy, good thinking and thinking ahead.”</div>
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Letters have the power to grant us a larger life. They reveal motivation and deepen understanding. They are evidential. They change lives, and they rewire history. The world once used to run upon their transmission — the lubricant of human interaction and the freefall of ideas, the silent conduit of the worthy and the incidental, the time we were coming for dinner, the account of our marvelous day, the weightiest joys and sorrows of love. It must have seemed impossible that their worth would ever be taken for granted or swept aside. A world without letters would surely be a world without oxygen.</div>
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Garfield attributes a good deal of the humanity of the letter — something he so poetically terms its “physical candor and the life-as-she-is-suffered quality” — to the tangibility of how it travels from sender to recipient. Though we know a great more today about <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/30/tubes-andrew-blum/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">how information travels on the internet</a>, Garfield argues for an “intrinsic integrity” that letters hold over other modes of communication and explains:</div>
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Some of this has to do with the application of hand to paper, or the rolling of the paper through the typewriter, the effort to get things right first time, the perceptive gathering of purpose. But I think it also has something to do with the mode of transmission, the knowledge of what happens to the letter when sealed. We know where to post it, roughly when it will be collected, the fact that it will be dumped from a bag, sorted, delivered to a van, train or similar, and then the same thing the other end in reverse. We have no idea about where email goes when we hit send. We couldn’t track the journey even if we cared to; in the end, it’s just another vanishing. No one in a stinky brown work coat wearily answers the phone at the dead email office. If it doesn’t arrive we just send it again. But it almost always arrives, with no essence of human journey at all. The ethereal carrier is anonymous and odorless, and carries neither postmark nor scuff nor crease. The woman goes into a box and emerges unblemished. The toil has gone, and with it some of the rewards.</div>
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<em>Fiona Apple's handwritten letter about her dying dog. Click image for details and full text.</em></div>
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Although much of his argument is premised on these romanticized rewards that stem from the letter’s traditional form — arguments not entirely convincing beyond the automatic sentimentality of nostalgia — Garfield makes his strongest point perhaps inadvertently, in an aside, discussing the letters of 14th-century scholar Petrarch, which used to run over a thousand words. Those letters, Garfield notes, were “not only readable but still worth reading” — and therein lies the bittersweet mesmerism of <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/letters/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">the letter as a cultural genre</a>: With the ease and rapidity of email, how much of our textual exchanges actually end up being truly worth reading? Rereading?</div>
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But the best, most eloquent articulation of just what makes the letter worthy comes from one of Garfield’s ancient-world epistolary champions. Demetrius, who lived sometime between the fourth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D., captured the essence of the perfect letter:</div>
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The letter should be a little more formal than the dialogue, since the latter imitates improvised conversation, while the former is written and sent as a kind of gift. . . . The letter should be strong in characterization. Everyone writes a letter in the virtual image of his own soul. In every other form of speech it is possible to see the writer’s character, but in none so clearly as in the letter.</div>
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<em>One of countless letters of audacious requests Mark Twain received. Click image for more.</em></div>
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Garfield’s core argument, while anchored a tad too stubbornly and narrowly to the preservation of letters as a medium, speaks powerfully to a broader urgency — the increasingly endangered species of meticulous, thoughtful self-revelation and deep mutual understanding through the written word in the age of reactionary responses and knee-jerk replies. He captures this beautifully:</div>
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Great miserabilist that he was, Philip Larkin was spot-on with his famous line from ‘An Arundel Tomb’ … what will survive of us is love. Letters fulfill and safeguard this prophecy. Without letters we risk losing sight of our history, or at least its nuance. The decline and abandonment of letters — the price of progress — will be an immeasurable defeat.</div>
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<em>Charles Eames's proposal letter to Ray Eames. Click image for details and full text.</em></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/To-Letter-Celebration-Lost-Writing/dp/1592408354/?tag=braipick-20" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>To the Letter</em></strong></a> goes on to explore the history of letters and the humanity of letter-writing across the millennia, from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the invention and advent of the internet, covering the entire spectrum of genres from sales letters to love letters and exploring the intricacies of what makes a perfect letter. Complement it with this fantastic <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/21/how-to-write-letters-1876/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">1876 guide to the art of letter-writing</a>, then revisit some of modern history’s <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">most rereadable letters</a>.</div>
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