FURY

Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury - sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal - drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also viloence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise - the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammelled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from fucking limb.

~Salman Rushdie in Fury.

Then Almitra spoke again and said...
"And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:

You were born together,
and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings
of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the
silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together.
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress
grow not in each other's shadow.


~Kahlil Gibran.

Tabula Rasa

1. you find yourself. the vision. you create yourself. that vision.
   
2. never compromise.
   
3. You were born complete. realize it. don't become one with the other. don't coalesce with the beloved . The void you seek to fill is the want for answers and only answers will fit perfectly. perpetually.
   
4. be brutal. be ruthless. be honest to yourself. have the courage to be so.
5. do not let the fear steer. do not let the fear incarcerate.
6. be your own master. your own teacher. you cannot learn the way to be by observation. no one may guide you, do not look for guidance. you will be misled. experience. you will be enlightened. be your own messiah.
   
7. all relations are based on mutual respect. Don't ever act to harm that respect. it doesn't remain a bond otherwise.
   
8. No one has the right to expect anything and hold you in obligations unless you offer so.
9. Always do a thing because YOU want to do it. Not because you should / shouldn't or because somebody else expects you to do it. be genuine.
10. So long as the subject is worth fighting for, never give up. Things will be if you want them to be. Believe it. if you get tired, admit it. using your humanity as cover is cowardice, a disgusting pity of an excuse. don't blame your humanity.