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Be ahead of all parting
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it all will your heart … Continue reading
Feeling Like Spam
Excuse me for not being just who you need. But I don’t really know who I am. Sometimes I’m happy and feeling so good. And sometimes I just feel like spam. Sometimes I feel like the sun in the sky … Continue reading
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As once the winged energy
As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges. Wonders happen if we can succeed in passing through the harshest danger; but only in … Continue reading
You, you only exist
You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all your suddenness, arising in love, or enchanted in the contraction of work. To you I belong, however time … Continue reading
Time stand still
by Justme Spin my friend the wheel of time. Spin it fast and free and true. Lay you not upon its rim, lest time drags you through, The rip and free of wheel, of life, of sickening nausea Rest you … Continue reading
My Cushion
One o’clock in the night. Turning and turning. Cannot sleep. Out of bed, to my cushion. Blanket around me. Sitting in the dark. I feel tensed. I smile at my painbody. “You like keeping awake don’t ya”, I ask. I … Continue reading
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Transparency
Fascinating article on Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency ( Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks) No Secrets
A moonlit evening
How can I possibly sleep This moonlit evening? Come, my friends, Let’s sing and dance All night long. Taigu Ryokan
Beginnings
The first book I ever read about spirituality was Chakras, Aura’s and Energies by Hetty Draaijer (1917). Although there is little to be found about her life, she seemed to have inspired many teachers in the field of meditation and … Continue reading
Democracy
I am absolutely fascinated by the epochal events unfolding around Wikileaks and the making public of ten of thousands of classified documents, as well as the reaction to it. To me it is not the “what”, but simply the “how”. … Continue reading
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