i will grow. i will transform myself. i will become better
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AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR MYSELF A NEW HEART FROM SALT AND MUD
Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
RULES TO CONQUER PESSIMISM, BUT NOT
SUFFERING:to accompany the most delicate rustling of the soul with an intentional tension;
to be lucid in all intimate dissolutions;
to oversee one’s musical fascination;
to be methodically sad;
to read the Bible with political interest, and the poets in order to verify one’ s own power of resistance;
to use nostalgia for thoughts or acts;
to kidnap them for the soul;
to create an exterior center for oneself;
a country, a scenery;
to tie one’s thoughts to space;
to maintain one’s hatred artificially, it doesn’t matter against whom —a nation, a city, a person, a memory;
to love the force that comes after each dream: to be brutal with everything that is pure or sublime;
to learn a tactics of the soul;
to conquer the spiritual states;
to not learn anything from people;
only nature is in control of its own doubts;
to annul one’s fear of motion, while running;
every time we stand still, things remain silent and nothingness calls us;
to make a system out of delusions.
Unknown Artist | Αναστενάρια - Music Of The Fire Walkers
truce - an olive branch on the bed, pictures of christ and military clothes [uanushoved]
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Investigation, Scientific or Otherwise, of Matter Without Form by Ivor Francis, 1943. Oil on canvas, 69.5 x 94 cm. The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
“Gloom is literally atmospheric, climate as much as impression, and if people are also gloomy, this is simply the byproduct of an anodyne atmosphere that only incidentally involves human beings. Gloom is more climatological than psychological, the stuff of dim, hazy, overcast skies, of ruins and overgrown tombs, of a misty, lethargic fog […]”— Eugene Thacker, Cosmic Pessimism
cremation lily - as a sea creature might watch from an aquarium
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i miss her. i feel that am missing part of myself
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altlast asks: hey!!!! guess what!! i miss you
i miss you too dear !! 🌹🌿
I can read myself, listen to myself, see myself and download my own work, and all of this makes for a very strange circuit: at once a kind of short circuit of my own memory.
—Bernard Stiegler, from “Teleologics of the Snail: The Errant Self Wired to a WiMax Network’,” Theory, Culture & Society (vol. 26, no. 2–3, 2009)
how to think more rationally instead of emotionally¿
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there are things within me i want to say - need to say - that need to break free from their shells, to germinate - but i can never find a way
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The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: ‘I do not love you,’ but: 'You cannot love me, as much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.’ It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you’; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you’, that is all I have known, nothing more.
—Franz Kafka - Diaries (12 February 1922)
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people project themselves as a fantasy on social media, presenting themselves only in the most idealised way
but all that comes from investing in and making others buy in to your fantasy image, is loneliness