Posts tagged "death"

Excerpts / April 12, 2025

Oath, Final

I am because I am! means I exist because I exist and need no justification whatsoever for my existence. The fact of my being is enough. I require no terms, conditions or permits from myself or anyone else. I live, and in living I am fully entitled to go on living. My life, my existence, my being is not predicated on standards, values, achievements or accomplishments. I am, not because of books I write, money I earn, degrees conferred, children I have—I am with or without these accouterments. These things and people are not me! I do not exist because of them. Relative to my life, they exist because of me.

— Compassion and Self Hate, Theodore Isaac Rubin

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Quotes / December 5, 2024

Rumination

There is the past, which nobody can deny – it is there, solid, brutalising, crippling, destroying the mind. That is a fact, outwardly and psychologically. See this fact without any condemnation or judgment; merely see the fact of what the past is.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Fables / January 1, 2024

The One-Eyed Doe

A Doe had had the misfortune to lose one of her eyes, and could not see any one approaching her on that side. So to avoid any danger she always used to feed on a high cliff near the sea, with her sound eye looking towards the land. By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land, and often escaped by this means. But the hunters found out that she was blind of one eye, and hiring a boat rowed under the cliff where she used to feed and shot her from the sea. “Ah,” cried she with her dying voice, “You cannot escape your fate.”

Prim Postulate: I am enough. I have enough. I do enough.

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