Just me in the corner... using cinnamon to cover my sin
burned from the within
fear and lust are crawling
underneath my skin
Sparkling tear
sprung from my indefatigable eye
though persistent and tough
covered up by the pouring rain,
in perfect silence I cry
The reflection of your soul
dormant in your restless eyes
warms my heart and lights my mind
but I'm ( Read more... )

The wound-up thread that Theseus held unravelled till
he'd found, within his maze, the beast he had to kill.

Shiva, dancing in a ring of flame,
treads down the demon that his dance must tame.

In darkness Jacob wrestled with a stranger who
did not prevail, and blessed him, when their night was through

They say wolves die all alone, don´t cry for me ( Read more... )

Es gibt zwei menschliche Hauptsünden aus welchem sich alle andern ableiten, Ungeduld und Lässigkeit. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie aus dem Paradiese ausgewiesen worden, wegen der Lässigkeit kehren sie nicht zurück. Vielleicht aber gibt es nur eine Hauptsünde: die Ungeduld. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie ausgewiesen worden und wegen der Ungeduld kehren ( Read more... )

Ernest Hemingway used to say that stories should be like icebergs. Nine tenth parts of them must remain sunk under water. We all crave for mystery thus,  historical events or characters become legends and myths. Devoted fathers read these stories to their children at night time disguised as fairy tales, and the protagonists of the stories smile in ( Read more... )

Master, I keep all the hurt inside

in fetal style I lie at night

attempting so to hide

Sometimes it leaks in tears

sometimes in pain

I walk the streets in silence

hidden by the pouring rain

Was I fooled by the stare in your eyes?

Or did I get lost in a web of sweet lies?

The words allow the avenue to steer

the self created torture

I have ( Read more... )

For all of you students of your own mind.

Have you ever stopped to think how similar a library and a Memory Palace are? All those un-read books are like empty thrones for endless dreams.

Giordano Bruno received intense training in a Dominican convent and later became one of the most famous practitioners of the memory arts. To me, the arts of memory ( Read more... )

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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire-

Religion doesn't teach you how to be good, it only teaches you how to pretend to be good.

I have lately been fond of saying religion doesn't help anyone see God, doesn't help anyone connect with the divine or sacred aspects ( Read more... )