Jugar a las cartas solo o a uno de esos juegos de crucigrama para "matar el tiempo" es la derrota total del espíritu, prueba del más abyecto yermo intelectual.
“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.
I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach.
I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
― Knut Hamsun
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
La meditación (budista o hindú y quizá la contemplación neoplatónica) nace del amor a la conciencia. Es el proceso de tomarle cariño a una experiencia de deleite y claridad que despunta en la introspección. Se observa el puro fenómeno mental y se empieza a saborear, sin apego.
Leo en alguna parte "rango de atención promedio 47 segundos"... Una regla simple pero transformadora: nunca veas un video corto en línea. Los videos cortos son el loto narcótico de la época.
"Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts — but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is."
— Joseph Campbell
La economía vive de producir innumerables distracciones casi mágicas (que encierran rápidas descargas de eros o promesas de eros), esto lo vio Benjamin y lo padeció en carne propia Baudelaire, víctima de una sensibilidad fantásticamente nerviosa.
"Most people you see are just sleepwalking through their roles, absent from their own lives. They’re fully in character and don’t know any other way."
-- Jed McKenna
"El poder requiere cuerpos tristes. El poder necesita tristeza porque puede dominarla. La alegría, por lo tanto, es resistencia, porque no se rinde. La alegría como potencia de vida, nos lleva a lugares donde la tristeza nunca nos llevaría."
Gilles Deleuze