Thank your enemies bc they built you. They showed you how strong you are, how smart you are, how resilient & resourceful you are but most importantly they showed you how powerful you are.
Q : Pourriez-vous cesser de boire ?
🎙️Charles Bukowski : Pourquoi ? Est-ce que je dois cesser de respirer ? Boire, c’est magnifique. Autrement, je me serais liquidé à 23 ans.
On rentre de l’usine. Faut-il se reposer pour le prochain jour de travail ? Non. On se saoule et on oublie l’usine. On vit. Enfin. Quelques heures.
Boire est une merveille. On juge mal la question. Les Anciens Grecs appelaient le vin le sang des dieux. Et la bière est vraisemblablement la pisse des dieux.
Ça m’a toujours aidé à vivre avec des femmes épouvantables, que je n’aurais jamais supportées autrement. Elles ont l’air tellement horribles. Chaque deuxième mot, c’est “saloperie de merde”. Si on boit, on oublie ça. Viens sur mes genoux et en avant.
Comme manœuvre, sans un rond, t’as pas les roses du jardin, mais les mauvaises herbes.
Et les choses s’arrangent quand on a bu. On prend le haut du trottoir, on lorgne les vitrines, on fait ce qu’on n'aurait jamais fait à jeun. On ose, on se laisse aller, on devient quelqu’un.
📺 Extrait du documenaitre de Claude Torracinta diffusé, le 23 mai 1986, sur la TSR https://t.co/f7pcVszUA8
A snake does not shed its skin because it wants to look different. It sheds because the old skin has become a prison. What once protected the body now restricts it, and if the snake refuses to split it open and crawl free, the skin that was meant to serve life becomes the thing that ends it.
Nietzsche saw the same law operating in the mind. An opinion is not meant to be a monument. It is meant to be a living response to a living reality, and reality does not hold still.
The moment you decide a belief is finished, permanent, no longer open to revision, you have done to your mind what the trapped snake does to its body. You have let the old shape calcify around something that was supposed to keep growing.
This is uncomfortable to hear in a culture that treats changing your mind as weakness, as inconsistency, as something to apologize for. But rigidity is not strength. It only looks like strength from the outside, the way a fossil looks solid because it no longer moves.
A mind that cannot update, that defends its old positions out of identity rather than truth, has already stopped being a mind in the fullest sense. It has become a monument to what it once understood.
The real discipline is not holding on. It is knowing when to split the skin open and step into the next shape, even when the old one still fits well enough to be comfortable.
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Even those who worship u secretly harbour a subconscious desire to witness ur downfall. Those who learn from u will eventually strive to prove u wrong. Nobody is truly loyal to u. When the time comes, they won't spare u. Remember that.
If you get an Ethiopian Bible you will see it has remained untouched and has all the content. Plus Ethiopia is still using the correct 13 month calendar and are years behind us.
Let’s not forget that the first of the year is actually April not January.
People who are highly aware become unsociable. Crowds drain them. Noise overwhelms them. Small talk feels like work. They chill different. A cozy room. Two people they trust. Good food. Music. Conversations that actually mean something. That’s where they feel alive. Depth over noise. Because for them... peace feels like home.
An autistic person once said something that really stuck with me: you have to establish your place in the hierarchy with neurotypicals. Pretending the hierarchy doesn’t exist doesn’t make it disappear.
If they see you as above them, they’ll keep trying to bring you down. If they see you as beneath them, they’ll keep treating you like shit.
15. She can never love you like you love her.
Her love is conditional - based on how valuable you are. Your love is unconditional. Accept this brutal truth and you will never be disappointed. Stop looking for loyalty in a creature that loves opportunistically.
SUCCUBUS CAN’T MAINTAIN LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS.
A succubus is not only a night-visitor of old grimoires. In the deeper symbolic register she is the archetype of hunger that feeds on proximity and dies when the other becomes real. She thrives in the threshold: the half-light between longing and possession, the dream in which the beloved is still an image, not a presence. The moment the other acquires weight—history, refusal, ordinary mornings, a will that does not orbit her—the current falters. What she drinks is projection, not person.
Mystically this is the law of unbalanced polarity. The succubus figure stands for any force, inner or outer, that can only relate by extraction. She mirrors the unintegrated anima or the shadow’s appetite: enchantment without covenant, ecstasy without endurance.
Classical allegory already knew her as the counterpart to the faithful bride or the alchemical queen who must be both dissolved and fixed. Surreal juxtaposition simply makes the split visible—one body luminous, the other already ash—because the psyche cannot sustain a bond that refuses mutual substance.
Long-term relation demands the death of the pure fantasy. It asks the devouring aspect to be married to patience, the nocturnal thrill to daylight accountability. Where that marriage fails, the visitor departs at dawn, leaving only the hollow of what was never risked. The teaching is not condemnation of desire but its transmutation: hunger that learns to stay becomes devotion; hunger that must flee remains a dream that cannot bear the weight of a name.
En théorie des jeux, que vous choisissiez de jouer ou non n'a presque aucune importance. Si vous êtes proche du jeu et touché par sa structure, vous y êtes déjà inclus. Ne rien faire est aussi un coup joué, et il a ses conséquences comme les autres. Vous ne pouvez pas sortir d'un jeu qui continue sans vous. Vous pouvez seulement choisir de le jouer en le comprenant, ou d'en payer le prix en l'ignorant.
En théorie des jeux, il existe une vérité qui bat toutes les autres : le coup le plus fort n'est presque jamais dans le jeu. Il est dans le choix du jeu. On peut passer des années à devenir excellent dans un jeu qu'on ne peut pas gagner : une carrière dont les règles vous désavantagent d'avance, une compétition où le vainqueur est déjà écrit, une dispute où avoir raison vous fait perdre l'essentiel. La question qui précède toutes les autres est simple : est-ce que je joue au bon jeu ? La plupart des gens optimisent leur réponse à la mauvaise question, et ils excellent à cela. Ils passent une vie entière à jouer la mauvais jeu, et crie à l'injustice et la à malchance.
ANCESTRAL INTERVENTION
They did not stop the storm ~ They spread their wings over what it tried to take.
In the oldest Shadow Walker stories, there is a river hidden between two mountains where the water does not take the body first.
It takes the voice.
Those who fall into it can still see the sky and hear the thunder, but no matter how desperately they call for help, the river swallows every sound. The deeper they sink, the more they begin to forget the way home, the faces they love, even their own name.
But when someone carrying an old bloodline begins to disappear beneath that water, the ravens gather.
Each bird carries the memory of someone who survived before them: the grandmother who endured the winter nobody spoke about, the grandfather who rebuilt after losing everything, the forgotten healer and the one who finally broke a pattern the family had mistaken for tradition.
They descend into the canyon and become one enormous guardian above the drowning soul.. A raven with a thousand ancestral memories hidden inside its feathers.
It does not remove the storm or lift the descendant effortlessly from the water. The ancestors may guard the crossing, but the living must still choose to return.
Instead, the raven stretches its wings across the river and holds the darkness open. It remembers the descendant’s name when suffering makes them forget. It carries the strength of every life that endured long enough for this one life to exist.
Perhaps ancestral protection does not always mean being spared.
Perhaps it appears as the intuition telling you to leave, the unexpected strength to survive another night, or the quiet voice inside you that refuses to surrender when you cannot explain where that voice came from.
Pain may have entered the bloodline, but so did endurance, instinct, creativity and the ancient refusal to disappear.
Protection does not mean the storm will never touch you.
It means the storm does not receive the final claim over you.
You still have to swim but you were never swimming alone.
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"To say “I am God” is not heresy. The real heresy is to say “I am not God,” because that implies there is something outside of God. That would mean there is some place, some being, or some aspect of reality that exists independently from the source of all life. And that is simply not possible. There is no such line that can be drawn. There is nothing outside the One. To deny this is not humility; it is mistaken identity.
If God is truly infinite, then God is truly without boundary. And if God is without boundary, then there is no edge where God ends and something else begins. The moment we say, “God is here, but not there,” or “God is in this person but not that one,” or “God is present in this experience but absent in that one,” we are no longer speaking of the Infinite.
We are speaking of something else, something the mind has wrapped in the cloth of its own fear, control, and preference. A finite God is not God at all. A finite God is a projection. It is a mental object created by the ego to serve its own agenda, something to cling to, manipulate, or fear. And from this place, every perception we have of God becomes a mirror of our own limitations. As Thomas Merton once wrote, “Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.” If the God we believe in excludes, punishes, withholds, or favors some over others, we are not seeing the Divine, we are seeing our own unconsciousness reflected back at us.
I understand why people recoil when they hear that phrase. The ego hears “I am God” and thinks it’s a personal claim, as if one small individual self is claiming to be the totality. But that is not what it means. What it actually means is that there is no separation. The identity we believed ourselves to be this little bundle of memory, thoughts, trauma, and roles is not the one making the claim. It is precisely that limited self that dissolves when the truth is seen. What remains is not a person claiming to be God, but the One recognizing itself in form.
Of course, I didn’t always see it this way. My relationship with the Divine has gone through many iterations, each one sacred in its own way. In the beginning, God was external. A powerful figure watching from above, handing out rewards and punishments based on behavior. Then God became the exclusive deity of my group, a version of truth wrapped in certainty. But as my consciousness grew, so did the circle of my understanding. What began as egocentric devotion expanded into a group-centered loyalty, then into a world-centered reverence, and eventually into a recognition that no boundary—religious, cultural, or conceptual can contain the Infinite.
Ken Wilber’s work helped clarify what I was intuitively sensing. His articulation of “growing up” through developmental stages and “waking up” through timeless realization gave language to what had always lived inside me. He taught that we don’t need to reject former views of God, but rather transcend and include them. Each stage reveals a fuller picture, not by replacing what came before, but by expanding it. What I once called “God” was not wrong, it was simply partial. And the deeper I looked, the more I found not a person, not a being, but Being itself. God not as a concept, but as the very substance of consciousness.
As the mystic Kabir once said, “I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.” That is the human dilemma. Searching for the Divine while swimming in it. Worshiping what we already are. Seeking what has never been absent. The mind cannot comprehend that what it is looking for is the looking itself.
So now, I rest in the stillness I used to chase. There is only one reality appearing as many faces, one light taking infinite forms. This breath is God. This moment is God. This awareness is God. There is no self left to be proud of it, and no self left to reject it.
Only the vast, living mystery recognizing itself without name, without distance, without lack. And to know this not believe it, not affirm it, but be it, is the end of the search and the beginning of everything.
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WHEN BETRAYAL BECOMES YOUR BREAKTHROUGH
There are wounds that do not merely cut the flesh of trust. They split the soul open.
Betrayal is one of them.
It arrives like a knife wrapped in familiar hands. The ones who swore they would never leave. The ones who spoke the language of your heart. The ones who stood closest when you were most unguarded. And then—silence. Distortion. Abandonment. The sacred contract broken.
In that moment the world tilts. The ground you thought was holy becomes ash. You question every vow, every vision, every tender offering you made of yourself. The ego screams for justice. The heart collapses into the old familiar abyss.
But listen.
The mystics have always known: the deepest initiations rarely come through light. They come through the dark night of the soul. Through the sacred wound that refuses to close until something older and vaster than the personality is born.
Betrayal is not only a human failing. It is a cosmic midwife.
It strips away the last illusions of safety you still clung to. It forces the soul to stop looking outward for rescue and turn inward—toward the unshakable presence that was never betrayed because it was never dependent. The part of you that existed before the promise was spoken and will remain after every name has fallen away.
What felt like destruction was excavation. What felt like abandonment was the universe removing every false altar so that only the living temple remains.
The one who betrayed you was, in the hidden architecture of the soul, an unwitting servant of your becoming. They tore the veil. They ended the old story. They made it impossible for you to keep living the smaller version of yourself.
Now the fire has done its work.
What rises from the ashes is not the same being who entered the flame. It is the one who remembers: I was never only the betrayed. I am also the one who cannot be destroyed. I am the silence after the storm. I am the gold the furnace was secretly refining.
Let the grief move through you completely. Do not spiritualize it too quickly. Feel the rawness. Honor the sacred rage. Then, when the wave has passed, stand in the stillness that remains.
That stillness is your breakthrough.
The betrayal did not happen to you. It happened for the soul that was ready to wake.
You are no longer the one who was left. You are the one who was set free.
Attention is a form of payment. That person who's constantly annoying you is getting exactly what they seek every time you react. Likewise, that one annoying ad you see continuously is doing its job just right: staying in your mind. You need to be more picky about what your attention is on. Because you are paying. All the time.
Game theory advice:
Whenever you plan something grand, do not start planning from the beginning (t=0). Start at the end, at the final state you wish to reach. From there, you will now go backwards. Constantly ask yourself, "What do I need to do to get there?" and break the large goal down into smaller steps. This method is called backward induction, and it works particularly well when you lack direction. You will be able to work toward your goals with unmatched clarity.
Les gens cherchent souvent à impressionner leur supérieur. Ils devraient d’abord se demander : « Qui doit exactement dire oui pour que cela arrive ? » Votre supérieur direct n’est pas nécessairement celui qui contrôle votre promotion, votre mutation, votre projet ou votre accès à une opportunité. Vous pouvez passer des années à impressionner quelqu’un qui n’a pas le pouvoir de vous faire avancer. Dans une hiérarchie, ne confondez jamais proximité et pouvoir.