Sep 23, 2024
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Creation of art is passion and appreciation of art is Catharsis
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Creation of art is passion and appreciation of art is Catharsis
To a Colleague
I find that, in a famous phrase, a corollary's also true: don't bother others in the ways you wouldn't have them bother you. 2018
The result was that she felt herself constrained to declare that in life everything depended upon ones finding oneself. One apothegm and she was once more on an even keel.
Halldór Laxness, "Independent People" (Vintage International, February 19, 2009)
Assorted
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The mind reasons, the heart passions and the soul receives and listens.
Epiphany about a twittering bird
Early morn I happened to hear a bird twittering and it was a beauteous sound. It was a melody for the years. It was an autumn rhythm of passion. It was a soul lullaby. It was a serenity of ecstasy. It was love for the soul. It was nature’s embrace in a charisma. It was a floating twilight gossip. It was manna’s food of divinity. It was a symphony of music.
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It is said in the Bible in the New Testament that Heaven is God’s throne and the earth God’s footstool.
So, I quote: Lord Jehovah Jesus: make your footstool Earth my prosperous dwelling.
Sayings of Beatnik Rabbi
Life is a theater of the Absurd, so celebrate the irony of life’s existence.
Shame and guilt wear heavily on the soul.
Reproach you are an intruder of the soul.
Nihilism and negations are needed to surgicalize angst.
Even my own relatives have written me off.
I hate to beg for help even when I am feeling helpless.
I would like to gouge out the eye of sadness.
The body is a machine of erotic joy.
The Self has mirrors, one of self-hate, reproach, guilt, shame and false pride.
The existentialists were right in calling life absurd but they also gave a clue to live life with meaningful and creative choices.
The enigma of the soul is the poetry of the heart.
In my journey of life, experience has taught me that life is meaningless, chaotic and absurd.
We have to live life by making creative choices.
Irony is the raw humor of life.
In this life: fortune makes an affirmation and misfortune a negation.
The Myth of the Sisyphus is the true meaning of life.
Teenage is fancy, youth is charming, middle age is irony and old age: wisdom.
May the wheel of fortune turn the tide in my favor.
There are only two choices in life: one: affirmation and the other negation.
Horoscope is a demon of false hood.
Blessed are the ecstatic for they shall obtain ecstasy.
Being in tune with nature is communion for the soul.
Wit matures with age as wisdom.
To write is to drain the blood of the body.
Meaning of the self is a cosmos in chaos.
Mock the absurd with ironic humor.
Nietzsche was right when he said that God is dead.
Moral man, you are a savage self.
Free the significations of the body with passion and delirium.
Fortune favors the meek and not the brave.
Childhood memories are sweet reminiscences.
Anger is a poison residing in the heart.
The gift of love is a cosmetology of the heart.
I can never forget my teenage sweetheart even though she has forgotten me.
I would like to pull the trigger of luck.
Oh, Mammon: God of money be absurd enough to bless me with many windfalls.
Memory can forgive but memory can never forget.
Say Yes in affirmation to the existence of life.
Wealth has to become a cornucopia of abundance in my life.
To write is to express madness.
It is said in the Bible: what profits a man if gains the whole world and he loses his soul? In reply I would like to say I am a soul lost but I have not gained the world.
Abundance is infinite passion and desire.
Woe that strikes the heart: burn it with fire.
To write is to live a life of fulfillment.
The existential self is an amoral one.
There is a passionate shame in committing adultery.
Nietzsche’s death of God has killed all morals.
God is only a theological question mark.
You can sell your soul to the devil but you can’t do it with your ego.
The carnal man is a poetic soul.
Sin is a beautiful temptation.
Don’t overcome desire but succumb to it in passion.
The Philosopher Nietzsche was humane in the pathos of feeling.
The desire to be victorious is a humane one.
Ancient Greek rhetoricians used to carry little aphorisms around, sometimes witty but always truthful little sayings being at the ready to respond or make a point. Ex: "Tomorrow is another day". Such phrases today are also called epigrams.
In present times I submit to you the following apothegm [or epigram]: "A gurdus is never shy' ('gurdus' I learned from reading Quintilian); a ‘gurdus is a fool, an idiot. I prefer knowing the ancient ways from time to time.
PS to the artist who illustrated the smoking figure, please forgive me for altering your work...