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""Dažkārt tu ilgas stundas pavadi koka priekšā, to vērojot, aprakstot, ķidājot [..] Tev šķiet, ka tu varētu pavadīt visu dzīvi koka priekšā, tā arī to neizsmeļot un nesaprotot, jo nekas jau nav jāsaprot, ir tikai jāskatās. [..] Tu vari būt suņu Dievs, kaķu Dievs, nabago Dievs [..], bet kokam tu nekad nebūsi saimnieks. Tu vienmēr varēsi gribēt tikai pats kļūt par koku."" — Apr 28, 2026 10:43AM
""Dažkārt tu ilgas stundas pavadi koka priekšā, to vērojot, aprakstot, ķidājot [..] Tev šķiet, ka tu varētu pavadīt visu dzīvi koka priekšā, tā arī to neizsmeļot un nesaprotot, jo nekas jau nav jāsaprot, ir tikai jāskatās. [..] Tu vari būt suņu Dievs, kaķu Dievs, nabago Dievs [..], bet kokam tu nekad nebūsi saimnieks. Tu vienmēr varēsi gribēt tikai pats kļūt par koku."" — Apr 28, 2026 10:43AM
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""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
“Why didn’t we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!”
― THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE
― THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― The Dharma Bums:
― The Dharma Bums:
“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Island
― Island
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