What’s the meaning of it all?
Denn gerade ihnen steht der Rückzug aus der schrecklichen Umwelt und die Einkehr in ein Reich geistiger Freiheit und inneren Reichtums offen. So und nur so ist die Paradoxie zu verstehen, daß manchmal die zarter Konstituierten das Lagerleben besser überstehen konnten als die robusteren Naturen.
Frankl, Viktor E. • ... Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen

Consider how much time you spend thinking—in even the subtlest way, in the back of the simulator—about what others think of you. Be mindful of doing things to get admiration and praise. Try to focus instead on just doing the best you can. Think about virtue, benevolence, and wisdom: if you sincerely keep trying to come from these, that’s about all
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If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
Joseph Campbell
“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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