“In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.”
― Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
― Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
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“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”
― The Book of Secrets
― The Book of Secrets
“الُعزلَة مطمئنة, إنها تعطيني مساحة كافية لأقترب ماشئت , وأبتعد ماشئت . ان تختار عزلَتك, لا يعني ان تكف عن الحضور في قلب العالم, إنها في أبسط أشكالها,تعني ان تحضر بإختيارك, وان تباشر حضورك ضمن حدودك الخاصة بحيث لايسع احدا أن يسرقك من ذاتك على غفلة, أو يشكل وجهك وفق مايريد, أو يؤذيك أو يلوي عنق بوصلتك.”
― الآخرون
― الآخرون
“وحدها الأرواح تتواصل ، ولا تفترق ..!”
― مضيء كالقمر حزين كالبيانو
― مضيء كالقمر حزين كالبيانو
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