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TABACARIA (FERNANDO PESSOA)

I failed in everything. Since I had no aims, maybe everything was indeed nothing. What I was taught, I climbed out of that, down from the window...

30 April, 2021

The dream of the butterfly (CHUANG-TZU)

Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I...

29 April, 2021

Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one (RICHARD BACH)

“Where is everybody, Sullivan?” he asked silently, quite at home now with the easy telepathy that these gulls used instead of screes and...

28 April, 2021

From the Wise you will take whatever you wish (SENECA)

No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear...

27 April, 2021

When it’s offered to you, accept it (LEO BUSCSGLIA)

When we die and we go to heaven, and we meet our Maker, our Maker is not going to say to us, why...

26 April, 2021

Procrastination (ROLPH DOBELLI)

Procrastination is the tendency to delay unpleasant but important acts: the arduous trek to the gym, switching to a cheaper insurance policy, writing...

25 April, 2021

Spleen (Charles Baudelaire)

I am like the king of a rainy land, Wealthy but powerless, both young and very old, Who contemns the fawning manners of his tutors And...

24 April, 2021

Unhappy those who mourn (JORGE LUIS BORGES)

Wretched are they that mourn, for they already have the miserable habit of mourning. Fortunate are they that know that suffering is not a...

23 April, 2021

The fox really felt that big (OSHO)

There is a Sufi story about a very cunning fox ...

22 April, 2021

That which channels the energy of our total being is known as ‘will’. (CARLOS CASTANEDA)

Don Juan had described dreaming to me in various ways. The most obscure of them all now appears to me as being the...

21 April, 2021