New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Bewegung statt Verwurzelung Ich fragte mich neulich, ob ich eigentlich wirklich geerdet sein möchte. Bin ich ein Baum, der seine Wurzeln in die Erde schlägt und sich nicht bewegt, sondern wächst in der Umgebung, in der der Samen einst spross? Oder möchte ich gar ein Fels in der Brandung sein, der sich umspülen lässt vom […]
Ein Apfel, eine Erdbeere, eine Melone oder eine Maracuja, eine Banane oder Pflaume, eine Tomate oder Gurke, eine Bohne oder ein Korn, eine Kokosnuss und ein Granatapfel. Früchte wollen verzehrt werden, sie wollen Genuss bereiten, nähren und zuweilen auch berauschen. Sie schillern und vergären, verwesen und verströmen Düfte, sie fallen ins Auge, betören die Sinne, […]
I have been waiting for some time. Actually, I like waiting. Waiting is a space and a time in which there is nothing else to do but wait for time to pass. As a rule, there's not much else to do apart from read, talk or think. Waiting times are therefore always free spaces for me. [...]
Today I heard a quote from Sri Aurobindo. He said that each of us has several selves. That was clear to me. It has been my experience for decades that the different aspects of a personality are many and that the idea of a subjective identity is a construction. I always saw the principles of construction as ideological, which [...]
Approaching big topics with small texts - is that possible? The Mediterranean region is the birthplace of monotheism - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. India is the birthplace of Hinduism. Countless gods are thought of here, or the absence of God, or the universality of the divine, depending on which of the numerous strands you follow. Two principles are [...]
In Europe, we have an idea of enlightenment as something where an individual recognizes that he or she is living under externally imposed constraints. It is then a matter of overcoming these constraints and placing oneself under a greater law. A light comes on and shines in all the dark corners, so that what is not yet [...]
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