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[Arminius]

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Kwam zijn spirituele ontwaking voor of nadat hij € 150 miljoen waard was? 🙊

 

[Corleoné]

Kwam zijn spirituele ontwaking voor of nadat hij € 150 miljoen waard was? 🙊

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Denk niet dat als je echt spiritueel ontwaakt bent, je nog veel geld kan verdienen als (komisch) acteur. Zijn vroegste video's ivm met het spirituele, het moment nadat hij in contact was gekomen met de teachings van Eckhart Tolle, dateren ook van 15 jaar geleden...

En herinner me ook een uitspraak van hem:

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

of “I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.”
― Jim Carrey

 

[Corleoné]

“For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If you do not feel ashamed, you are successful. All other definitions of success are modern constructions; fragile modern constructions.”​

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

 

[Corleoné]

Iets uitgebreider:

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.”​

― Charles Bukowski


Bukowski is precies wel iemand naar m'n smaak, hoe meer ik soms een uitspraak tegenkom van hem... Een echte introvert, non-conformist, individualist, outsider...

 

[Corleoné]

 

[Corleoné]

Deze uitspraak uit de Bijbel bevalt me nog altijd. (Father en God kan eventueel ook vervangen worden imo door areligieuze woorden.)

Het is onder andere vooral ook vanwege deze uitspraak dat ik mij nog de film Fury herinner.

 

[Corleoné]

Dit verklaart dus waarom een volledig onthaarde, gladgeschoren vrouw mij eig nog nooit echt heeft weten te bekoren, in tegenstelling tot het andere, nog altijd natuurlijkere uiterste.

 

[Corleoné]

Edit: de uitspraak sprak eig mij vooral aan vanwege de associatie met een andere, betere uitspraak, nl:

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"To the clean are all things clean"--thus say the people. I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!

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Nu, goed, we zullen zien.

 

[Corleoné]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXw-j8LMp8g



Geen idee wat z'n IQ betreft, maar op vlak van wijsheid/ruimdenkendheid zit hij in elk geval wel ver boven het gemiddelde. Daar kan een enggeestige hansworst als Trump nog wat van leren.



https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_sZYY6lE_jE


Respect Mike, respect.

 

[Corleoné]

 

[Corleoné]

“Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.
Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;
and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.”

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–William Stafford, "You And Art", from You Must Revise Your Life (1986)

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[Corleoné]

"The pleasure that arises from regarding ourselves is called Self-love or Self-contentment. And since this pleasure is repeated whenever a man regards his own capabilities, that is, his power of activity, the result is again that everyone is eager to tell of his exploits and to boast of his strength both of body and mind, and for this reason men bore one another." Spinoza.

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kijk: https://www.tiktok.com/@debsahoy/video/7448229598539615510