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  1. I am. In a good way, they said. So, I was sitting on our couch a few hours ago, when one of the two cats who live here casually strolls by, jumps on my lap and starts delivering her babies. Four fuzzy Feline. A true compliment.
  2. Relationship advice

    That's what I thought. Talk to her. If you can discuss the things said in this thread with her, honestly and on equal terms, and you come out of it as a couple, marriage might be an option. Otherwise it seems as if your question implies you have already decided what you feel to be the right thing to do, right?
  3. It is known

    Can anyone tell me why be isn’t king Phillip? The short answer would be enough..
  4. Exercise suggestions for seniors

    Ba Duan Jin It is what a former Shaolin monk I know teaches at workshops for people with health issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baduanjin_qigong
  5. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    Fair point. For me she is scrubbing a part of herself. Her Wild Twin so to say. I guess that brings us back to that point about initiation? About when and in what setting to tell this story. I liked that one too. There is beautifully edition illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Like this:
  6. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    My book of the Year. So far. The Wild Twin, as I understood it, means the part or parts of us that were lost in the process of civilisation. What would an initiation into adulthood have given us? What attitude to keep at heart if the Underworld (or Otherworld or whatever) is something we're already in, we just didn't recognise it yet? With this questions in the background the author tells and interprets two stories. "The Lindworm" and "Tatterhood". I will link the first one below, but it was the second one that really got to me. I'm certain there is somebody here that needs to hear that second story, if only for admiration. Whoever that is, she or he should buy the book. Give the man his well earned money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-uZSIUSpU (All my interpretation, of course. For all I know it might be a complex metaphor for sport fishing.)
  7. Life Changing Books

    Albert Camus - The Plague The Book that got. me thinking Raja Yoga - Swami Vivekananda. The one that helped to stop it allready I couldn’t believe the Beauty of „The Picture of Dorian Gray“ when I first read it. Sounds great and the best part is that’s all true, but the truth is the most life changing book for me was probably one of the first I read on my own. I‘ll give it to this one: The only thing that comes close is a little brochure a friend gave me to read when I was twenty. I had just picked him up at the airport and he wanted to stop at his mom‘s house, so he took it out of his breast pocket and apologized for the time this would take. And I waited and waited and read the whole thing. “Love and Meditation“ by Osho. Or something like that. That started it. I read everything I found from him and then started with the ones he was writing about and, I don‘t know, that’s how the journey began.
  8. Oh, and if anyone is lacking sperm, there is lots of it in the male sub- Forum.
  9. I think the correct term is „kill all the white men“. Because of that song, please don‘t kill me.. But honestly, removing bad traits seems to me like something to do with myself. When I think about the population, I‘d vote for adding good traits instead. Wich brings me back to sperms. We‘re having our third Baby this year.
  10. Nietzsche Quotes

    „Ich liebe die großen Verachtenden, weil sie die großen Verehrenden sind und Pfeile der Sehnsucht nach dem andern Ufer.“ — Also sprach Zarathustra That Book was important to me. I would have used a translation if this was a new thread, but, as it is, that‘s the quote in my head..
  11. Haiku Chain

    The Way of the Sword A belly to kill Buddha Bowing down upright
  12. Haiku Chain

    That old hare, Rabbit, can outrun Nine tailed foxes. Sit silent. Listen.
  13. Art & the Internal Arts

    This is something I‘ve been playing around with: To create art needs an Idea and some Kind of technique to manifest the Idea. Ideas are basically for free, if you‘re willing to pay for it, but the technique part needs mastery. Like learning how to play the piano, you will have to give something to the process. So Photography. I know nothing about it. My greatest achievement was to find out how to stop the camera settings. If I wanted to make a Photo that I like, the only chance would be luck, so to say. Timing. To be at the right place at the right time. And that‘s the game. The Intention is to get a nice shot, always having a Camera with you is considered cheating. Make the Intention clear and don‘t miss the Moment. It is just a game. No masterpieces so far and not a great new method of cultivation, but fun and I feel it helped me a little with listening and differentiating between all the different impulses going on in here. ps. I was ging to upload a Photo I liked here, but I haven‘t figured out how to just yet. ( Technique, remember, I suck at it) I will do so, once I know how..
  14. uploads

    I cannot find the "My Attachments" option. Anybody help? Edit: got it, Thanks
  15. A short story in Episodes kind of thing. https://lee-morgan-lyhb.squarespace.com/blog/2017/12/13/out-of-the-bridgewater-jerry-1
  16. That was really interesting. Thank you. Felt a little bit like the First Movie of a planned Trilogy, which never got finished because nobody else liked it.
  17. Haiku Chain

    I‘m never quite sure but neither always unsure Sounds like I am, right?
  18. Hidden content boxes

    Hi, how can you create that neat „click hide or reveal boxes“ in a post? Call me stupid, but I can‘t figure it out. Thanks
  19. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    I'm late to the Party. Traffic was awful. Me too. A friend suggested it in a library and I went through his work like there was nothing else in the World. Probably the most beautiful rainy November that ever happened to me in July. Found this years later, I don't know why. Have you read it? That was a Birthday Present I gave last Year. And here are two books that wait here to be read: Patrick Harpur on Sören Kierkegaard? Sounds good to me. On how Victorian age People would arrange different Flowers to give specific messages. It's basicaly a Word for a Plant. I hope it will help me to get to know a few Plants I'll meet next Spring a little better.
  20. Paintings you like

    Very cool. They do have a quality to them. This one is wie us for almost a year now and it still catches me.
  21. Paintings you like

    Michael Alexandrowitsch Wrubel "Der Morgen" New Painting for our new Living Room