I like people who dream, A.Camus

I like people 
who dream or talk 
to themselves interminably; 
I like them, 
for they are double. 
They are here
and elsewhere.


Albert Camus

Ferdinand von Bozen:....

https://plus.google.com/113358809742678365342/posts/Yk6V2dfckG8

see: above link
photo and text: Ferdinand von Bozen

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

― Jorge Luis Borges


This post hit me hard at the right time....

more food for thought

http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de/2015/01/on-self-importance-part-i-sense-of-death.html

"This life is temporary; in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the constant proximity of death and the lack of any miracle cures or drastic methods of resuscitation brought people, I think, to a much closer sense of this — a sense that has been deteriorating ever since.  People's sense of their own importance leads them to do terrible things; these young men who murdered the cartoonists and grocery store customers in Paris are an excellent example. These men— objectively violent and tragic to the rest of us — thought they were terribly important, and that what they were doing was terribly important. Perhaps that is the essence of terrorism — not the outward action, but the narcissistic tyranny of self that confers Godlike agency on us. It's one thing to grab an automatic rifle and kill people this way; yet I think that all of us, due to the action of this self-importance, indulge in thousands of tiny little acts of murder of compassion and love within ourselves all week long.

 It's this inner dilemma from which all the outer actions spring; everything outward is an expression of an inward action. All these inward actions begin with the belief that I am important; and only the certain action that I ought to focus remarkably on the present moment, because I will die, seems to be a dose of medicine that could counteract it."

http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de/2015/01/the-missing-mind-part-iv.html


this link leads to the previous post here .:

"In failing to distinguish between the inner and the outer, and understanding that mindfulness (in so far as it works within one) addresses the inner, and the outer—

but not the intersection between the inner and the outer—

which is the terrifying location of consciousness itself, the location we forever avoid because of the difficulty of standing between these two powerful forces —

—we conceptualize.

 I would say, generally speaking, that this tendency towards the superficial—which is relentless in this age of endless media and the growth industry of willful ignorance—has infiltrated the spiritual subsystems of cultures in the same way that it has contaminated everything else.

Now, this is a very important point, because the spiritual essence of a culture is the BIOS, the basic input output system, on which everything the culture represents is based. It lies embedded deep within the machinery of not only the culture itself, but the souls of the individuals that inhabit it; and when our attention spans grow short, our memories of tradition are abridged, and our commitment to the long, deep, essential pondering that is necessary for spiritual growth is abandoned, our culture decays, and everything along with it.

We live in an age where this form of degradation is not only accepted, it is celebrated."

value and misunderstanding of mythology: thoughts on romantic love

I wish to clear some possible errors in understanding myth, mythology, emotional patterns and expectations.

Ariadne, Theseus and Dionysos. Orpheus and Eurydike.
These are wonderful myths, rich, rich in depth and feeling.
The Greek mythology didn't promiss salvation.
It let us participate in all the tragedy, suffering, comedy and joy of life , love and death.

As a start bourgeois romanticism regulating life in sleeping rooms and at tea parties started to make promisses of  "religious" fulfillment. it was, maybe one could say it, encrypting marital violence.

And nowadays mass production of  double hearts coming with a new car and flat, furniture, food and lifestyle goodies oriented on consumerism makes it all sadly ridiculous. Romantic stories turn out to be mere pornography of the hunt for taxable pleasure.

Personally i do not see anything wrong with "romantic" feeling as long as it is true, secret and kept away from these lines of influence. Not romanticism, no. But people have bolts and doors and windows and longing and desire. they can melt for short eternal moments, in soul, spirit and body. they cannot melt together in life. to live and love together or apart is an active process which requires full awareness and effort.

it is important to see that no crucifix and no lover will save us.
Love itself is not a myth but it is a myth too, a different one for each human on this earth.
It certainly is not "just" a myth.

I do not want to live without myths, fairy stories, all the memories of mankind,
and i advocate a life with all its richness, feeling all the joy in living, moving, early morning light and sunsets,  in Eros, in sharing and melting,  being able to let go, well knowing that nothing like that is permanent or leaves me as an angel flying through the dark forever.

To fly through the dark, we have to do it ourselves.
We can but stretch out a hand, sometimes.


We don't need to come away from all expectations and hopes.
We have to recognize them for what they are and what they mean to our real self.
And we must be able to live inside ourselves.

Tim Buckley - The River

This Mortal Coil · Waves Become Wings

This Mortal Coil - Another Day

..maybe

maybe not

no idea

PINK FLOYD - HIGH HOPES [ HQ ]

i lost nearly a complete tooth in sleep....it should tell me something

Olafur Arnalds ~ Undan Hulu ∞ The Cello Song

Ólafur Arnalds - Kjurrt [...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness]

a view on the most frequent causes of "illness" in a Western society

About eight years ago I had to write up a curriculum by which I would train young medical practitioners in my office.

Though in large parts written in non-medical simple German language it was approved by the Medical Council which surprised me considerably. I obtained the licence to train doctors for 24 months.

I try to translate the central part.

A General Practitioner's view on the most frequent causes of suffering and illness in rich capitalist Western countries

Lack of movement

Lack of motivation

Lack of true feeling

Lack of experience of self "value"

Lack of any true/own image of oneself

Lack of "valuable"/own/true/right aims in life

Estrangement from one's life and self. Inability to use the tools of thought and questions. Rigidity in imagination. Dependency on social convention leading to fear, failure and confusion. Environmental and self poisoning.

I advocated a different schooling system as a footnote, also stressing that teaching sports as a subject oriented on high performance and good marks should be of less importance than leading children and adults into the experience of joy of movement, even if not completely without discipline