It is not my thorns that protect me, said the rose,

but my parfume

the three principles of Kyudo, japanese archery:

truth
goodness
beauty

Shiva roared 84 times, 84 Big Bangs have happened, 84 universes have been created

Love is too young to know what conscience is,

Yet who knows not conscience is born of love


Sonnet 151 W.S.

the quick and the dead

no other option

Glück ist hier und jetzt

"the readiness is all" Hamlet, Shakespeare

a philosophical drama: to Be or not to Be

 A lesson from martial arts:

the enemy is not always outside.

Are you really going somewhere or just wasting your time?

" Beauty is truth, truth is beauty "

" Discomfort is our ally that keeps us awake "

 Nathalie de Salzmann de Etevian

" Wise is the man who is amazed at everything "

I read today:
“I set out to look for a bad person and could not find one anywhere. Then I looked into my own heart and saw no-one worse than myself.”

from the medieval mystic poet Kabirdas

I need to know myself as a whole and to express myself as a whole, that is, to be a whole.
Jeanne de Salzmann

Even in Kyoto

-hearing the cuckoo´s cry

I long for Kyoto

Matsuo Basho

I believe that
poetry exists beyond words;

words are only the vehicle that carries poetry

and not the target

I am dead because I lack desire,

I lack desire because I think I possess.

I think I possess because I do not try to give.

In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;

Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;

Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing:

Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;

In desiring to become, you begin to live.

last letter to his wife

Rene Daumal

...to the Universe belongs the dancer...

” So he told us to form a circle, holding 

one another’s hands, and himself stood in the middle . . . 

“Answer Amen to me,” [he said] and began to intone a mystical chant: 

“To the Universe belongs the dancer.” 

  Amen 

“He who does not dance does not know what happens.” 

  Amen 

“Now if you follow my dance, see yourself in Me who am speaking . . . 

You who dance, consider what I do, for yours is 

this passion of Man which I am to suffer. For you could by no means have understood 

what you suffer 

unless to you as Logos I had been sent by the Father . . .  

Learn how to suffer and you shall be able not to suffer.”

from the gnostic text
The Acts of John 

If you take the wrong choice,

you lose the nature of thing 

 conversating withTapa Sudana

   

The sea I'm sailing to has never been crossed before.
Minerva inspires me.
Appolo leads me while the nine muses point to the Bear
   

       

           from Dante´s Paradiso canto II

"there is nothing you can see that is not a flower;

      there is nothing you can think that is not the moon"
                                                            Matsuo Basho

they make dreams in which they do not believe in

how strange indeed

to dream, but not believe in your own dreams

I stood at the brink of a golden abyss, 

where neither words nor reason could help me to survive in case of falling. 

The net of love would maybe catch me (but it was also love that brought me there!)

but it would though hold me away from the calling depths of the Inscrutable, 

which I could only reach in the deepest and emptiest Silence.

Will, Fate, accidental good or bad Luck

Depending on which rules... the measure of Freedom

How is it possible that not all have the wish to be free?

Not all have the courage to live towards freedom

This phrase appears often in a japanese tea-room:

buji-kore-kinin

The noble one is he who does not strive and therefore lives simply

...towards a sane insanity...