expansion of thought
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expansion of thought
This comes down to the difference between Personal Taste and Public Taste. Personal Taste is dependent on something you might not even be totally aware of, an essential relationship, irreplicable but imitable, while Public Taste is an attribute aggregated from social and personal value. Public Taste is what the Recommendation Economy runs on—it... See more
Your Taste Should be Private
and we still talk about taste because that is all we have left
soul. If you attend to your self and seek to come into your own presence, you will find exactly the right rhythm for your life. The senses are generous pathways which can bring you home.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
The idea that if you live your senses, you’ll find your way back to yourself, much like Rilke’s thought on living questions, if you are true to the question, life will inevitably answer it.
These are erotic decisions: driven not by logic, but by the magnetic logic of the soul. They often look like madness to the outside world – irresponsible, inexplicable, dramatic – but they are the precise moments where life, real life, begins to throb. These are the moments where one’s biography is no longer dictated by inheritance, but by... See more
Tamara • Erotic Decisions
The boy in the book finds great meaning in the word Maktub when he meets his soulmate.
He is struck with an instant recognition of her, his heart knowing she is the one for him and knowing that she feels the same.
He is struck with an instant recognition of her, his heart knowing she is the one for him and knowing that she feels the same.
“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time.... See more
Maktub: It is Written by the Hands of Fate | The Goddess Circle
And just as maktub can let you become the person you want to be, maktub is believing that if you ask the Divine will deliver what you seek - and that includes love if you take accountability in seeking it out. For the boy had to travel to meet her.
On eroticism as a means to make decisions.
Eroticism, then, is about gravity, not about gratification, the pull toward something that reorients the self. And this gravity manifests not only in romantic or sexual relationships, but in every domain where desire dares to disrupt duty.
Tamara • Erotic Decisions
"I have put here all the things I have wanted to write all my life. This is 'the book'... Having done this, I can do anything I want."
In East of Eden, the characters deeply question and ponder over the meaning of the word “timshel”, and finally understand it to translate most accurately as “you may”. This, in the context of the story, is an... See more
you've got more of a choice than you think
The idea of “you may” connects or reminds me of Pablo Coelho’s The Alchemist and “maktub”, in the sense that you can choose what kind of person you want to be, and how to act, and if you have faith in the divine, what is written for you will be delivered to you as you ask of it. Action, accountability and faith connection.
How to ask beautiful questions in the proximity of Rilke and his living questions