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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:06:00 +0000

This blog has moved to http://blog.kvartunaite.com.

See you there!

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:23:00 +0000

Many years ago I was listening to a great man giving a lecture about project management. He was brilliant at using very vivid examples and making it sound so much more cool than it actually was. Then he was talking about Cristopus Columbus and his project to travel to India. That project failed yet the question was a project a failure and after all if Columbus was a failure.
I often wonder about projects. About projects in life, in our moments and in dreams. After all - where is that line?! I wonder how often do we seek for something that we desire without noticing what is there to be discovered?!

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

~ W. A. Ward

P.S.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:46:00 +0000

Yesterday it was the 27th day of Ramadan. It's Night of Power and "one common belief is that angels will shower down the peace and blessings of God on all who remain awake during this “Night of Power"."
The power of now, the power of today. It only about freedom and being true to yourself.

"We won’t have a thing
So we’ve got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind" ~ Cat Power

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

~ John Keats "Bright Star"

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:24:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:57:00 +0000

Today I am learning about karma sutra and dreaming with your eyes open. About verbs without action and acoustic midnights. About inner snow and proportions.

First comes the sound
then the blow
they didn't feel the bullet
neither did I

свободнo

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
[Men readily believe what they want to believe.]
~ Julius Caesar

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:00 +0000

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

~ Alexander Pope "Eloisa to Abelard"

A PRETENSE TO ONE

Renee Cohen

I am not every woman.
I am not every man.

You may well be fooled
if you think you know who I am -
for I am - and I am not -
fixed,
neither in the veil nor behind it
neither in one mask or another
neither in one mirror or one water
neither in self nor in other.

I do not have face nor security.
My visibility is hungry -
for recognition
for food
for voice...

"& you won't get the job if you touch the students:
that's simply not allowed"

Hospital birthing, too, offers no touching support.

We live in a time when one is libel
for touching others.

Retreating into invisibility is the master's
preference for his slaves.

Touching evokes feelings, becomes a shared breath...

How can I hear what you are saying!
How can I say what I don't know!

Love is generative, touching,
feeling, caring,
not commanding, not complacence,
not nonchalant, often not sophisticated,
not alone, not frantic, not bland...

My barriers are up against the "every"
something or another.
My questions lie half way between
pretend & genuine.
My pain is complex - the prison
not entirely of my own making.

I have no shield
no salvation
no second nature
no God
no leader to follow
no assurances that I might not be
phony sometimes
times when I'm not kind
times when I'm not gentle
times when I'm not encouraging

times when You really don't care...
times when You don't touch another...anywhere

Bring me back to the words
wrap me in them gently
enrapture me in your love of words
& I'll know that my worth is beyond
the price of a carved mask
beyond the wit it takes to play
another game of hide-&-seek
beyond anything smooth.

Though I play - I am not therefore phony
only spontaneously silly.

I know no last things that I might want...

I like to play, to stir the watery image,
to sing songs that grow their own
wings though I have none -
I pretend to be
no angel...
What phoniness comes
about
comes of not accepting
the mingling of self & other
a pretense to one.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:46:00 +0000

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire -
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

~ Edgar Lee Masters

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:47:00 +0000

Today I found out how rainy the rain can be. Even on the 26th of August.... How sweet is the sense of anticipation and peaceful curiosity. It's beautiful and promising only if you manage to embrace the change; let go the fears...

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:53:00 +0000

Love is like a good weather. And rain, and wind is also some kind of good weather.

***
Travel a thousand miles to save someone, to save a life, to save a day. Or night. Illusions (re)main.

"
- Who are you?
- Not half and not whole. At some piece of ...
- It's the bes - I said.
- That excites the imagination. Such women are forever loved. Completed women are dull. So are monumental women. Snippets - never.
"
e.m.r.

- Kas gi tu esi?
- Ne pusė ir ne visuma. Kažkoks fragmentas...
- Tai geriausia, - tariau aš. - Tai jaudina fantaziją. Tokios
moterys amžinai mylimos. Užbaigtos moterys greit atsipyksta.
Vertingosios irgi. Fragmentai - niekad.

There's no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices. Some choices are easy, some aren't. Those are the really important ones, the ones that define us as people.
~ Number 23

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:58:00 +0000

They say that if you drink water from the Nile, you will always come back.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:37:00 +0000

Yesterday I found out that these days and looking from our little wet planet, Mars is as big as moon and today I found out about how powerful full moon energy is.

They life is for those who dare to take it all and those who believe in their dreams and work hard on that. Every day.

Last night I heard this line: "Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work on". And it's true. Even if happiness is not obligatory.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted."
~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:46:00 +0000

Thy light alone -
Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

Every life is embrace with luminous moments. It's all up to us to embrace that and to be grateful, to believe we are as we breath constantly full of power to make magic.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:21:00 +0000

Dare to ask for happiness.

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:17:00 +0000

Life goes easy on me now.
Most of the time.
It takes just a little bit more patience to realise, to rise, to throw the dice.
And now I know a little bit more. Just a little bit more than I thought I have forgotten. One more year. One more little step. And how funny it is to shed that skin. How funny it is to sip that gin.



And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

~ W.Blake 1808

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:44:00 +0000

Parla Come Mangi
speak the way you eat

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:04:00 +0000

Come, let us be friends for once;
Let us make life easy on us;
Let us be lovers and loved ones;
The earth shall be left to no one.
~ old Sufi poem

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:56:00 +0000

At the first sign of indifference or lack of enthusiasm, take note! The only preventative against this disease is the realization that the soul suffers, suffers greatly, when we force it to live superficially. The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.
~ P.Coelho "Winner Stands Alone"

Even if you’re doing the same thing over and over, you need to discover something new, fantastic, and unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
~ P.Coelho "Winner Stands Alone"

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:24:00 +0000

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Honore de Balzac

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:24:00 +0000

...and yet letting go is what we are struggling to do over and over again.

"You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate—the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power."
~ Lolita, V. Nabokov

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:53:00 +0000

These days I have learned to appreaciate sunset and sunrise without going to sleep in between; I have learned to never let go of positive thoughts -- no-mater-what!
I have learnt to appreciate friendships and living with this furry little thing called naivety.
I have learned that between always and never is the state of sometimes...

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:11:00 +0000

live with no excuses and love with no regrets

"What I have learned (..) is that it really does not matter one bit what the cause of your pain, aggression or general attitude problem is. Disappointing childhood? Join the queue. String of failed relationshops? You're not the only one. Awkward cultural background? Honey, I'm Jewish. Cry me a fucking river.
No, it doesn't matter what got you fucked up. You might think it does, and spend decades (not to mention tens of thousands of pounds) in talking therapies of every stripe, dissecting the ins-and-outs of your inner child and why your life and relationships are so fucked up. But in the end, why bother? Why not just change today, and get un-fucked-up already?
Or, to give the concept a little more historical and philosophical gravitas, there is a well-known saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln that people are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It is the truth. You, too, are not incapable of happiness. If there is a chemical, physiological reason why you are unhappy, then huzzah, we live in an age where these things can and should be sorted out, thank you very much NHS. And once you have done that, you can just choose to leave the rest behind. Or, to attach some religious gravitas to the concept, do the Buddhist thing and let it go."
~ Belle de Jour

"I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles"
~ Audrey Hepburn

p.s.

by yoko ono

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:36:00 +0000

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable:
through the embracing of one of its beings.
~ M. Buber

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.
We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.

"Power and Love" (1926)

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:34:00 +0000

Today I rediscover the beauty of choosing, of making big things into little things and otherwise. It's about how much you challenge yourself, how much you learn and let yourself grow. Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better! If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise, don't you think?!

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noreply@blogger.com (Evelina) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:45:00 +0000

“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I’d seen destroyed. I’d swum through mink coats on my parents’ bed while they hosted downstairs, I’d lost the only person with whom I could have spent my only life, I’d left behind a thousand tonnes of marble from which I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself, I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering…”
~ Jonathan Safran Foer