magnificently unprepared/for the long littleness of life.
Monday, August 06, 2007
chew on this
Mara the Deceiver, the Evil One, was walking with his servant along a road. Ahead of them, a man was doing walking meditation. As Mara watched, the man fell to his knees and began to closely examine an object glittering in the dust.
"What has this man found?" Mara's servant asked his master.
"He has found a piece of truth," Mara replied.
"A piece of truth? Master, aren't you worried?" the servant exclaimed.
"Not at all," Mara replied calmly. "Watch: the next thing he'll do is make a belief out of it."
+ fictions&fires
12:21 AM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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