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The Importance of Being Yourself

 
 
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One has just to be oneself.  That’s my basic message.  The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens simply disappear.  Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
 
 
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another… Success occurs in clusters.
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
 
 
Take heart, [...]

Conversation with T (he) Pain.

 
Trying to stick to the theme – LOVE.  I fell in love but again not with a person, but with an illusion.  I will see how February turns out.  I made a resolution – to disappear from his horizon starting February 1st.  Keeping resolutions is, of course, much harder than making them.  So, we talked [...]

Boris Pasternak. February.

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
 

 
 
February
 
 
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
 
 
Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,
Race through the noise of bells and wheels
To where the ink and all you grieving
Are muffled when the rain shower falls.
 
 
To where, like pears [...]

Quotations by Blaise Pascal.

 
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.  Pensées (1670)
 
 
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.  Quoted in W H Auden and L Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms (New York 1966).
 
 
Those who are [...]