So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger, on the spiritual plane one person will struggle to help another only if this person is not, and if quite aside from opinions and convictions they share similar natures at the deepest level.

[…] my father […] knew about this duality, he too had met a woman whom he loved profoundly but at whose side nonetheless he remained alone because they were two different people. […]

The greatest secret and the greatest gift any of us can be offered is the chance for two people to meet. It happens so rarely-it must be because nature uses all its force and cunning to prevent such harmony-perhaps it’s that creation and the renewal of life need the tension that is generated between two people of opposite temperaments who seek each other out. Like an alternating current … an exchange of energy between positive and negative poles.

Sandor Marai, Embers (1942)

If you are willing to look at another person’s behaviour toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.

Yogi Bhajan

Suppose that music, lacking the imperialism of the Concept, had taken the place of philosophy: the paradise of inexpressible evidence, an epidemic of ecstasies.

Emil Cioran (All Gall Is Divided, 1952)

…che poi i musicisti Soul, R&B è tutta quella roba lì …voglio dire, leggiti i testi delle canzoni… hanno dei disturbi emotivi al limite dello stalking!

Giuliana

CANZONE DEL GIORNO: Ain’t Too Proud To Beg – The Temptations

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell.

Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love.

There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Christopher Hitchens

Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets, hm?

You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan” …even if the plan is horrifying.

If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blowing up, nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the plan.

But when I say that one little old mayor will die. Well, then, everyone loses their minds!

– The Joker

I’m not actually funny,
I’m just really mean and people think I’m joking.

WORD OF THE DAY (polish): Chusteczka (tissue)

When you allow yourself to be anything, you program yourself to achieve nothing.

– Karina