Get off the death train
2014/03/21 7 Comments
“We have been given responsibility for this world, this planet, this creation. How will we answer for our crimes of carelessness and thoughtlessness to Life itself?”
Can we – or better put – how are we to deter the suicidal tendency that humanity has fallen prey to?
Absence is our abode
2013/02/07 1 Comment
If I am to sum up the whole problem of this age in a single word,
that word would be ABSENCE.
Absence of a presence – as someone very well put it.
Absence is the suspension of any conceivable Value,
as Value resides in Presence.
Crassly speaking, Nothing Real is being created today,
as Presence is simply a word in the dictionary;
we have no idea any longer what it entails.
Wherever you go,
you sense this corrosive state of non-existence with all its derivatives:
Boredom, lethargy, cynicism, greed, theft, moral shortage,
dissimulation, sloth, futility and loneliness.
Modern man
2012/10/24 2 Comments
What has generated this collective attitude of ingratiating submissiveness
and resignation of one´s inner voice and natural emotion?
It exceeds my ability to comprehend, but people seem to no longer want to acknowledge their own lives. Most of them indulge in being not more than some languorous drones of sorts. Indeed, what is this uncommon fear behind this perfidious abdication?
I think modern man lives in a kind of disguised suicide. He has given up on life.
He assiduously dismisses his humanity.
All the so-called technological progress derives from and compensates this peculiar and incomprehensible inability to preserve one´s humanness.
The genuine human quality has become almost an extinct commodity. It is rather conspicuous:
MAN IS TIRED OF HIS HUMAN CONDITION – he virtually aims to be a robot. That is why he is nauseatingly projecting himself in all this technological folly, which is naught but a consequence of his inner piteous cowardice.
Can we discuss this together?
Back to real Presence
2012/09/14 9 Comments
People are not alert, they are not mindful to this very moment; they neither listen nor see what is happening NOW. They live in a state of constant aloofness, always on the run to God knows where, always being somewhere else. They are strangers… even in their own life, strangers even to their bodies.
It is so sad. You may see the most good-looking girls, with all the blessed feminine attributes and alas…you look into their eyes, and you realize with awe that they are not “at home”.
They´re totally uncomfortable in their bodies, they do not accept or know how to deal with their femininity; all their inner and outer attributes are more some kind of an ordeal to put up with, than something natural to enjoy.
It is a horrible nuisance to witness, but women have no real personality nowadays – as personality means presence – and what you see is “the same girl” in all girls around. Speaking and behaving the same way, same cloths, same haircuts, same everything…Due to the fact that women have become so flat and neurotic, we all suffer becoming some kind of freaks.
Women behave like men and men like women. Woman deprived of femininity and man deprived of force and manhood.
People being so absent in their lives, you may wonder how they can ever learn or know anything genuine, indeed, what kind of life can they have when they never touch anything for real…? Well, the bad news is they don´t have a real life, other than some kind of imaginary mise en scene.
They do all the “regular things” in life, yet always remaining in some kind of weird absent zone of sorts, always avoiding this present moment.
It is unbelievable. With these ghosts of people how can we ever speak of a real civilization? How can a culture deserve its name, when real Life is extinct, when everything is a blatant expression of absence and nothingness?
My aim and my concern here is this: we have to let our presence shine. This presence of ours needs to be so powerful in the here and now, so that it can be a living example and a guidance for everybody around to embrace.
We simply have to bring ourselves back home into OUR OWN LIVES.
This is the most vitally important thing we can “strive after”.
The most ideal of all worlds
2011/03/30 Leave a comment
Being a real human being poses so many difficulties, so people take the “easy way”, because they want to get rid of their humanity. It is easier to flee and oversimplify everything. So we have the most ideal world of all worlds – exactly what we deserve : a world populated by shadows.
Julien Matei
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