Mattbat64
Mathies   Niedersachsen, Germany
 
 
:ButterflyBeydo: Man is solitary and unsheltered before his death, for it is within of reason why they are only willing to learn about the world only after some disaster.

'Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.' ๐’ฉ๐‘–๐‘’๐“‰๐“๐“ˆ๐’ธ๐’ฝ๐‘’

'โ€œA man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.โ€ ๐’ฎ๐’ธ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“…๐‘’๐“ƒ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“Š๐‘’๐“‡

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."' ๐’ฎ๐’ธ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“…๐‘’๐“ƒ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“Š๐‘’๐“‡

'We can't learn without pain.' ๐’œ๐“‡๐‘–๐“ˆ๐“‰๐’๐“‰๐’๐‘’

'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' ๐’œ๐“‡๐’พ๐“ˆ๐“‰๐‘œ๐“‰๐“๐‘’

'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.' ๐’ฆ๐‘–๐‘’๐“‡๐“€๐‘’๐‘”๐’ถ๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น

'Above all do no forget your duty to love yourself.' ๐’ฆ๐‘–๐‘’๐“‡๐“€๐‘’๐‘”๐’ถ๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น

'But life is short, and truth works far and live long: let us speak the truth.' ๐’ฎ๐’ธ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“…๐‘’๐“ƒ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“Š๐‘’๐“‡

Do not fret for the troubled mind, for once men had seeked his completeness through means of religion
is now what its once on his own; is now misguided as a lost wondering soul, alienated from his own self
as religion is now no longer the centre of man.

:ButterflyBeydo: My poem

"A sacred garden of mindful ideas,
scented with aromatic dreams, now withered and pale
Fear to wonder inside, breath in the muse,
for the flowers are fragile and frail
As frozen hourglass grains, the sun shines dim,
yet the clouds pour no rain
A labyrinth of malice weeds and vines seals the field,
ever growing old and stiff
Dread to maze inside, scythe down the thorn,
as for the reaper is lost in the labour of grief."
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What The Hell Is Water? ๐Ÿ’ง
Here are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" One of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

If you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.
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Mattbat64 28 Feb, 2023 @ 7:52pm 
thank you
Kfor 19 Feb, 2023 @ 3:23am 
the song is called "Back to 1981"
Ahab 10 Sep, 2022 @ 7:19pm 
Thank you for posting those William Barret passages.
Stefan 9 Sep, 2020 @ 11:51pm 
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche