Dúvida matemática...

Tendo num eixo para o infinito,
E tendo no outro p'ra lá também.
Talvez lá diga o que nao foi dito,
Talvez lá tenha o que ninguém tem.

Memórias...

Fumava. A contraluz, percebia apenas tratar-se de uma mulher. Lá dentro, as portas iguais, tal como delas me lembrava. Olhava a rua, ou outra coisa qualquer. Impossível perceber. Talvez pensasse, como tantas vezes fiz, na mesma posição, apoiado na mesma varanda, sobre o mesmo Largo da Esperança. Foi há uma vida. O tempo não pede licença quando passa a correr...

Recordo a primeira noite... A casa vazia, as portadas escancaradas, e as luzes apagadas. No centro da sala, pronto a zarpar, um colchão forrado a branco e ar. Ao mar, navegantes, (sem) rumo à felicidade!

Viagem

Aparelhei o barco da ilusão
E reforcei a fé de marinheiro.
Era longe o meu sonho, e traiçoeiro
O mar...
(Só nos é concedida esta vida
Que temos;
E é nela que é preciso
Procurar
O velho paraíso
Que perdemos).

Prestes, larguei a vela
E disse adeus ao cais, à paz tolhida.
Desmedida,
A revolta imensidão
Transforma dia a dia a embarcação
Numa errante e alada sepultura...
Mas corto as ondas sem desanimar.
Em qualquer aventura,
O que importa é o partir, não o chegar.

(Miguel Torga)

YES!!!

"The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of existence." (Otto Hofmann in Waking Life)


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Waking Life . www.wakinglifemovie.com
Otto Hofmann (1918-2001) . www.austinchronicle.com

La felicidad...

El secreto de la felicidad es tener gustos sencillos y una mente compleja, el problema es que a menudo la mente es sencilla y los gustos son complejos. (Fernando Savater)



[No próximo dia 2 de Novembro, no Hard Rock Cafe, em Lisboa: Instead live!]
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Fernando Savater . www.mundocitas.com
Esplanar . esplanar.blogspot.com
Instead . www.instead.ws

Are you a dreamer?

Engraçado que se comemore hoje a Paz. Que se celebre um conceito, um desejo, algo que durante os 100 mil anos da humanidade não viveu sequer um dia. Talvez tudo se inverta. Pode ser que o Mundo cresça... E que, em paz, se recorde a Guerra, e as memórias tristes dos tempos em que vivemos.

Hey... Are you a dreamer? Haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming's dead, that no one does it anymore. It's not dead, it just has been forgotten. Removed from our language. No one teaches it, so no one knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity...

I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced. Ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting...



[Oiço Ta Dah, o novo de Scissor Sisters...]
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International Day of Peace . www.internationaldayofpeace.org
Waking Life . www.wakinglifemovie.com
Scissor Sisters . www.scissorsisters.com

Ainda o despertar...

"On this bridge", Lorca warns, "life is not a dream. Beware. And beware. And beware." And so many think because Then happened, Now isn’t. But didn't I mention? The ongoing WOW is happening right now! We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance where even our inabilities are having a roast. We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel starring clowns. This entire thing we're involved with, called the world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be. Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments, flabbergasted to be in each other's presence. The world is an exam to see if we can rise into the direct experiences. Our eyesight is here as a test to see if we can see beyond it. Matter is here as a test to our curiosity. Doubt is here as an exam for our vitality. Thomas Mann wrote that he would rather participate in life than write 100 stories. Giacometti was once run down by a car, and he recalled falling into a lucid faint, a sudden exhilaration, as he realized that, at last, something was happening to him. An assumption develops that you cannot understand life and live life simultaneously. I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree. I would say that life understood is life lived. But the paradoxes bug me, and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me. And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. Before you drift off, don't forget. Which is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Lorca, in that same poem, said that the iguana will bite those who do not dream. And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream... Thatt is self awareness! (Timothy 'Speed' Levich in Waking Life)


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Waking Life . www.wakinglifemovie.com