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[english]Part 2.
8*All that will disappear, what remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.
9* We were born into a time of revolt. We pour all out enthusiasm into it, we risk our lives and our youth, and suddenly, we feel afraid, and that initial joy gives way to the real challenge: weariness, monotony, doubts about our own abilities. We notice that some of our friends have already given up. We are obliged to confront loneliness to cope with sharp bends in the road, to suffer a few with no one near to help us, and we end up asking ourselves if it’s worth all that effort.
It is. And we will carry on, knowing that our soul ever though it is eternal, is, at this moment, caught in the web of time, with all its apportunities and limitations. We will as far as possible, free ourselves from the web. When this proves impossible and we return to the story we were told, we will, nevertheless, remember our battles and be ready to resume the struggle as soon as the conditions are right. Amen.”
10* ‘Well, it’s been in existence since the beginning of civilization, but it was only officially set down in 1933 by a Danish writer. In the small town of Jante, the power-that-be came up with ten commandments telling people how they should behave, and it seems to exist not only in Jante, but everywhere else too. If I had to sum it up on one sentence, I’d say: “Mediocrity and anonymity are the safest choice. If you opt for them, you will face no problems in life. But if you try to be different…”
‘I’d like to know what these Jante commandments are,’ said the journalist who seemed genuinely interested.
“You are nobody, never even dare to think that you know more than we do. You are of no importance, you can do nothing right, your work is of no significance, but as you never challenge us, you will live a happy life. Always take what we say seriously and never laugh at our opinions.”
11* Focus on the cold, until you stop trembling. Let the cold fill your thoughts, until there’s no space for anything else, until it becomes your companion and your friend. Do not try to control it. Do not think about the sun, because you will know then that something else -heat- exists and then the cold will feel that it is not loved or desired.
12* Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or madness
13* In hospital, love had spoken to me: “I’m everything, and I’m nothing. I am the wind, and I can not enter windows and doors that are shut.”
And I said to love: ‘But I’m open to you.”
And love said to me: “The wind is made of air. There’s air inside your house, but everything is shut up. The furniture will get covered in dust, the damp will ruin the paintings and stain the walls. You will continue to breathe, you will know a small part of me, but I’m not a part, I’m Everything, and you will never know that.”
14*“In the words of Persian sage: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”[/english]
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Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he
Alone can rival, can succeed to thee.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
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thats true...
