Life is intolerable

As best as I can tell, life is intolerable. Oh, not always of course. A case can be made for all the big wonders and little blessings and blah, blah, blah. But when you really boil it down, our entire existence rests on a few really ugly premises. First, life, and by that I mean [...]

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An Invisible Thread

There are nearly seven billion people on this planet. Each one, unique, different. What are the chances of that? And why?  Is it simply biology, physiology that determines this diversity? A collection of thoughts, memories, experiences that carve out our own special place? Or is it something more than this? Perhaps there’s a master plan [...]

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Who am I?

For every being cursed with self-awareness there remains the unanswerable question „Who am I?” We struggle to find meaningful connections to one another. We are the caring friend, the loving father, the doting mother, the protected child… We fight and we love in the hope that somehow, together we can understand our significance in the [...]

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1+1=1

What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false. One plus one equals one. We even have a word for when you plus another equals one. That word is LOVE.

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How to be a Complete Idiot in a Week

1. Stop thinking 2. Shift the blame (blame others) 3. Delete your emotions 4. Build walls 5. Avoid challenges – never fail by never trying 6. Believe in you – love yourself and only yourself 7. Deny, deny, deny – your truth is the only truth (deny to yourself that you denied) Reach stupidity and [...]

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Masks

All of us wear masks. They can be worn out of love and the desire to remain close to those around us, to spare them from the complicated reality of our frayed psyches. We trade honesty for companionship. And in the process never truly know the hearts closest to us. *** So much danger in [...]

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Creations

The pride of humans, of parents as well, makes us believe that anything we create, we can control. Whether from clay or from metal, it is in the nature of us to make our own monsters. Our children are alloys all, built from our own imperfect flesh. We animate them with magic. And never truly [...]

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Know thyself

A wise man once said, “Know thyself.” Easier said than done. It’s inscribed on the front of the Temple of Apollo. The entire quote is: “Know thyself, and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.” It’s quite a mouthful. My version is this: “Know thyself, because what else is [...]

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