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Austėja Auškalnytė
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“weel”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life. Anatole F ranc:e, in his enlightened way, was well aware of this contradiction. 'No', says none other than the mild M. Bergeret 'I would rather think that organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet. It would be intolerable to believe that throughout the infinite universe there was nothing but eating and being eaten.' The nihilistic revulsion in his words is not merely the psychological, but the objective condition of humanism as utopia.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
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“No matter what tools you use to create,
the true instrument is you.
And through you,
the universe that surrounds us
all comes into focus.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
the true instrument is you.
And through you,
the universe that surrounds us
all comes into focus.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“We seem to be like flies caught in honey. Be cause life is sweet we do not want to give it up, and
yet the more we become involved in it, the more we are trapped, limited, and frustrated. We love it
and hate it at the same time. We fall in love with people and possessions only to be tortured by anxiety for them. The conflict is not only between ourselves and the surrounding universe; it is between our- selves and ourselves. For intractable nature is both around and within us. The exasperating "life" which is at once lovable and perishable, pleasant and painful, a blessing and a curse, is also the life of our ownbodies.”
― The wisdom of insecurity ; The way of Zen ; Tao: The watercourse way
yet the more we become involved in it, the more we are trapped, limited, and frustrated. We love it
and hate it at the same time. We fall in love with people and possessions only to be tortured by anxiety for them. The conflict is not only between ourselves and the surrounding universe; it is between our- selves and ourselves. For intractable nature is both around and within us. The exasperating "life" which is at once lovable and perishable, pleasant and painful, a blessing and a curse, is also the life of our ownbodies.”
― The wisdom of insecurity ; The way of Zen ; Tao: The watercourse way
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