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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." j. Rumi

Bean

''The criminal misuse of time was pointing out mistakes. Catching them - noticing them - that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between usedul and erroneous information then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, wich was no improvment.'' -Bean by O.S. Card-

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“One of the most satisfying experiences I know- is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset… I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color” … I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds. It is this receptive, open attitude which is necessary to truly perceive something as it is.”

- Carl Rogers

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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

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" she can see its a painful subject for Tony, but this doesn't deter her; if anything it spurs her on. She pushes and prods and makes all the right noises, curious and amazed, horrified, indulgent, and relentless, and pulls Tony inside out like a sock."
-M. Atwood, The Robber Bride

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Les champs de mon enfance ont disparu sous un développement immobilier «homogène» en réponse à l'appel du toujours plus. Les siens sont redevenus ce qu'ils avaient toujours été et nous confirment que nous sommes bien peu. Il y a un je-ne-sais-quoi d'apaisant.

Daniel Rondeau

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“It’s amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart can take.”

- Nora Roberts

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"J'apercevais encorela beaute du monde - meme au plus fort de ma detresse, l'ultime chatiment me fut epargner -, mais je me sentais socialement inadequat."

les falsificateurs - antoine bello

Free love

“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone else’s. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”

- Anthony de Mello

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''Ceux qui sont morts sont morts, et il leyur est bien égal qu'on leur rende hommage. Mais c'est pour nous, les vivants, que cela signifie quelque chose. La mémoire n'est d'aucune utilité à ceux qu'elle honore, mais elle sert celui qui s'en sert. avec elle je me construis, et avec elle je me console. ''
- Laurent Binet - HHhH -

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Khalil Gibran has an excellent text about parents and children:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

took from; http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2011/01/21/on-a-mental-institution/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PauloCoelhosBlog+(Paulo+Coelho's+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Billy Bragg - New England

''I loved the words you wrote to me
But that was bloody yesterday
I can't survive on what you send
Every time you need a friend''

Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender

It doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I've left behind me
is a cold room
I've crossed the last line
from where I can't return
where every step I took in faith
betrayed me
and led me from my home

And sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

You take me in
no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness
that surrounds me
(who are you?)
are you an angel?
am I already that gone?
I only hope
that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here
on my knees
(who are you?)
And sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

(who are you?)
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

And I don't understand
HOW the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall

I miss the little things
I miss everything *about you*

It doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I left behind me
is a cold room

(who are you?)
And sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

(who are you?)
And sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

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''during my study of rap music, I discovered taht people who react negatively to this music are often unable to decode it's lyrics, style and message.''

- Cheryl K. Eyes -

Billy Bragg - A New England

''I loved the words you wrote to me
But that was bloody yesterday
I can't survive on what you send
Every time you need a friend''

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman -

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“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”

-Joss Whedon-

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''Il existe des femmes qui ne veulent accepter que la portion d'amour qui n'engage a rien.''

Jacques Lamarche.