Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it
Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
terça-feira, 30 de outubro de 2012
quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2012
Porque se é pela ordem de falar e escrever bem serei Senhor.
Seja feita a minha vontade para contemplar e evidenciar certezas passageiras
que aos poucos, muitas, possam levar essa pesada hoje, por que morta, alma humana
para o sacrilégio da vida terrena. Concorro a ventos de amargura e cansaços longínquos que perdem forças ao nos vislumbrarmos sós na imensidão da
consciência infinita. Caiem aos chãos os que procuram salvação do terror da
Verdade que se vai finalmente sentar à mesa do comum dos mortais. Encontros com
o passado e eu a ficar maluco de em tudo acreditar, tocando sensações antigas
como se fossem de amanhã, pois esse presente meu é sempre tão fugidio e
assustadiço... Ingresso então pelo segredo e no sussurro da madrugada eu
invento minha vida, não a conseguindo levar nesta inóspita terra. O curioso é
que ainda me querem, correspondem e por mim são involuntária ou voluntariamente
seduzidos por esta já morta, porque sabida, alma. Tenho tal desconfiança pela
vida que me é hoje oferecida que a renego logo à partida. Fico só com esta
minha que apesar de pobre é certa e isso é o que hoje valorizo. Sei que é a
minha sentença de morte esta necessidade de certeza mas…agora a morte parece-me
quase uma boa alternativa à vida. Quem fiz eu de mim? Por onde irei por
esses dúbios caminhos da realidade? Não me sei aperaltar de materialidade para
me manter terreno, real e coerente. Fujo de tudo o que posso e parece que os
amigos são-me os maiores inimigos porque lembram-me e evidenciam a merda, o
fraco que me tornei.
É um segredo.
Data o Outono
E o frio
Encanta-me de novo,
Espantando o meu
Calor para fora.
Data o Outono
E o frio
Encanta-me de novo,
Espantando o meu
Calor para fora.
Trabalho na tarefa
De me conseguir ser.
Coisa estranha quando
Se pode logo ser, não é?
Mas eu
Primeiro que tivesse possibilidades
Para ser eu
Fui um outro danado
Exacerbado por minha amada.
Lembrei asseguir
Sua ida para longe
E disso nunca mais me esqueci.
E alguém guardou o segredo
Para de mim não me voltar a encontrar.
Lá que me encontrei
Voltou ela
Querendo-me novamente,
Ao que eu fugi
Como ela o demónio,
Porque hoje quero ser
E sou eu o demónio.
Há que nos aliarmos
Aos deuses do negativo
Para procriar
Aí sim
O mais cristalino dos positivos.
Rogar aos céus
Forças de outrora com
O corpo e mente de agora,
Reconhecendo que o impossível
É hoje só uma outra ferramenta.
Nasce então do segredo
O eu que sou.
Aquele que se abriu a mim
Por eu o saber esperar.
Dança a flor dos ventos
A maravilha de nascer e nascer
Por toda a vida a crescer.
A morte torna-se
Simbólica então,
Apenas um símbolo e
Jamais real.
Já tão pouco sei
Da vida actual,
Espera-me a universal.
Mas, que posso eu inventar terra
E a caminhar como se mais real
Que essa pobre realidade.
O começo é passado
E meu continuar
É uma compulsiva reencarnação,
Da qual encarno
Não outro corpo
Mas outro ser a ser,
Outra vida.
Ter em quem procuro
Deduz-me em tempo
Por segundo.
A desconfiança pelo conforto
E por essa harmonia morta do hábito…
O concurso rege-se por vontade
E a vida vive-se em arte,
Pois a cara de quem anda aí
Censura qualquer ousadia,
Isto é, alegria de viver.
Hão de parar os carros,
Comboios e aviões
Para ver passar quem nasceu
Por sua voluntária morte.
Cristos que não pregam
Mas vivem,
Apenas vivem suas vidas
Como sábios que agora são.
Os outros que morram
Que há muita terra que fertilizar
Com sua carne em putrefacção.
Amanhã sonha a vida o tal segredo
E com a paciência desses cristos
Ela iluminará quem ainda restar.
Aí e só aí
A vida Será novamente.
E viveremos finalmente como Deuses,
E os Deuses
Morrerão como seres mortais
Que agora serão.
terça-feira, 23 de outubro de 2012
Erich Fromm
A ânsia de poder não é originada da força, mas da
fraqueza.
A principal missão do homem, na vida, é dar luz a si
mesmo e tornar-se aquilo que ele é potencialmente.
A busca da felicidade é uma das principais fontes de
infelicidade.
O amor imaturo diz: eu te amo porque preciso de ti.
O amor maturo diz: eu preciso de ti porque te amo
Você tem que parar para mudar de direcção.
O amor é uma actividade, não um afecto passivo; é um ato de
firmeza, não de fraqueza... é propriamente dar, e não receber.
O perigo do passado era que os homens se tornassem
escravos. O perigo do futuro é que os homens se tornem autómatos.
As nossas maiores dissimulações são desenvolvidas não
para esconder o que há de ruim e feio em nós, mas o nosso vazio. A coisa mais
difícil de esconder é aquilo que não existe.
A única forma de prever o futuro é ter poder para formar
o futuro.
Dizem que o talento cria suas próprias oportunidades. Mas
às vezes parece que a vontade intensa cria não apenas suas próprias
oportunidades, mas seus próprios talentos.
Estamos mais preparados para tentar o não tentado quando
o que fazemos é inconsequente.
Num tempo de mudanças drásticas, são os que aprendem que
irão possuir o futuro. Os cultos geralmente encontram-se equipados para viver
num mundo que já não existe.
Você nunca consegue o suficiente daquilo que você não
precisa para torná-lo feliz.
Os elementos mais dotados da espécie humana encontram-se
no auge da sua criatividade quando as suas vontades não são satisfeitas.
Saber significa ver a realidade em sua nudez.
Ter esperanças é uma condição essencial de ser humano.
O passo mais importante para chegar a concentrar-se é
aprender a estar sozinho consigo mesmo.
O amor é a última e real necessidade do ser humano.
A felicidade é a aceitação corajosa da vida.
O excesso de estudo torna os homens burros.
A vida se torna uma escolha quando entendemos que morrer
é uma opção.
A person
who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to
feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for
sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not
acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has
remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely,
powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and
his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though
he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his
"normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that
results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather
than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt
himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis,
i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms
will cure themselves.
Immature
love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you
because I love you.
Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Love
isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration,
patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a
practice.
Love is
not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an
ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the
whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
Man is
the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
If a
person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love
is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Love
means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the
hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of
faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Modern
man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as
an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his
position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from
himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable
exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality
package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable
exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one
of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.
Not he
who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
He gives
him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of
his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humour, of his sadness -- of all
expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of
his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other's sense of
aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to
receive; giving is in itself exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help
bringing something to life in the other person, and this which is brought to
life reflects back to him.
Who will
tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a
bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and
effort which life implies
Alienation
as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of
man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated
social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful
and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels
himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership
of himself.
The more
the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward
destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of
destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.
Giving
is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience
my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and
potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive,
hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a
deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my
aliveness.
Reason
flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions
are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and
feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.
The main
condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism.
The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that
which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no
reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their
being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is
objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are,
objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture
which is formed by one's desires and fears.
The
faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is
that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one
has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of
omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on
the relative absence of narcissism, requires the development of humility,
objectivity and reason.
I must
try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behaviour, as
it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists
regardless of my interests, needs and fears.
In love
the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Critical
and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most
precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
Freedom
does not mean license.
Just as
modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the
social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is
called equality.
Thus,
the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself,
is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
To spare
oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total
detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Love is
an act of faith.
If the
meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to
oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts.
It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the
Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its
limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is
known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for
centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection
of it in the judgements of others.
Paradoxically,
the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
We may
know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know
ourselves. We know our fellow man, and yet we do not know him, because we are
not a thing, and our fellow man is not a thing. The further we reach into the
depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge
eludes us.
Our
contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and
political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends
to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in
the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human
failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a
frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.
En realidad, sólo existe el acto de amar, que es una actividad productiva. Implica cuidar, conocer, responder, afirmar, gozar de una persona, de un árbol, de una pintura, de una idea. Significa dar vida, aumentar su vitalidad. Es un proceso que se desarrolla y se intensifica a sí mismo.
En realidad, sólo existe el acto de amar, que es una actividad productiva. Implica cuidar, conocer, responder, afirmar, gozar de una persona, de un árbol, de una pintura, de una idea. Significa dar vida, aumentar su vitalidad. Es un proceso que se desarrolla y se intensifica a sí mismo.
sábado, 20 de outubro de 2012
For the
joyful sinner
Is an old man dressed as a boy.
Is an old man dressed as a boy.
He conquers
the world
With is seduction,
Fruit of
is logging
For the
eternal.
Beautiful
sun and
Light within
He purchases
wonders
Of a new
day to come.
Acknowledges
that the
Misery of
today’s witnesses
Are tomorrow’s
fertile land.
Beauty is
a cat walking
Or the
rain listen to with heart.
Conclusion
is
That the
future lies in the alchemy
Of
thinking and believing in it.
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