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We, The Holy And Afflicted Ones
Mythically, the center of one thing leads to the center of everything. Seen in this way, the illness of one person becomes the ailment through which all that ails a community can be addressed; the wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again. Thus, the afflicted one becomes the center of the community and the opportunity for everyone to commune with the origins of life. That is why people used to say that the afflicted are holy; they are one way through which holiness and healing keep trying to enter this world.
— Michael Meade
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Then I took a taxi and when I passed a very beautiful plaza I almost cried, because I felt that I had also entered the toothed wheels of work and papers and that they had stolen my time. Because after all my time is mine and I should own how to spend it and spend it as poorly as I please. I mean: I spent the morning looking for proof papers to let me steal my time in peace. Truth: working for a living is more stupid than living. “I wonder who invented the expression “”making a living”” as synonym for “”working””.”. Where is that idiot?
Alejandra Pizarnik
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It does not matter what name you attach to it, but your consciousness must ascend to the point through which you view the universe…
