Literature, like abstract philosophy, is outdated
2013/12/10 1 Comment
Our name is quick fix
2013/11/04 Leave a comment
The thing is that I would like to write longer posts, but I am aware
that the longer the text, the less chance to be read…
People have almost no patience nowadays, they are not at
all interested to deepen a subject at length. Rather unfortunate…
One has thus to develop this uncommon skill of writing so concentrated and so powerfully, that things that once were pursued and wrought in a whole book, necessarily have to be conveyed in few lapidary lines.
Imagine Dante writing Divine Comedy in few lines only. Or Shakespeare
rendering his plays in no longer than a page. Quite absurd also for
Beethoven´s symphonies to be no longer than a minute.
Utterly surreal…but so it is:
Absurdity for the absurd.
If you have a message to convey you have to write absurdly
and whippingly short if you want to be heard.
Intellectual capacity and the lack of morality
2013/10/31 5 Comments
Not that learning is to be despised, but that it must be allied to goodness. Intellectual capacity is sometimes found associated with the meanest moral character—with abject servility to those in high places, and arrogance to those of low estate. A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take rank after many a poor and illiterate peasant.
– George Herbert
Beyond opinion or whim
2013/03/06 Leave a comment
If your words are to “outlive” you, they have to be poignant, passionately coherent,
seizing and personal, yet dispassionately impersonal and far-reaching,
and above all,
they have to convey Truth beyond opinion or whim.
Trapped and cheated
2013/03/04 Leave a comment
She writes incessantly.
Whatever she says is
seemingly right
and true.
You can sense wisdom in her lines.
You can sense a strong yearning to reach out.
And yet…
She is a perfect stranger to her words.
After reading her, you feel estranged too…
You have the eery feeling
of being left out of yourself.
Quite a fact
2013/02/26 Leave a comment
If you are hungry, and I give you ten likes here, it wouldn´t appease your hunger
would it…?
And yet, that´s the way we live…
Intelligence is not afraid of mistakes
2013/02/14 2 Comments
Her words were so winning and charming, yet she felt an urge to excuse herself:
“So many typos…forgive my idiotic writing in my email.
I don’t proofread as much because an email is less formal and I don’t spend hours editing it, I just free write.”
Me:
Who cares about typos as long as there is emotion and vivid intention behind words…?
I see so many writing skillfully, yet there is a vehement lack in their texts – no substance, no life…NO LIVING PURPOSE…
I love mistakes – yes, they are oftentimes more pinpointing than something “rightly” done.
Indeed, fools are always afraid of mistakes, you see them everywhere – people lacking intelligence, taking themselves too seriously.
For sure, the one who is not afraid of mistakes is more open-minded, more prone to grow, question and discover…
A reply to Heidi
2012/12/14 4 Comments
You see,
I don´t want to reach “all the people all the time”. If I manage to reach You, if you allow my words TO PERMEATE YOU, in that readiness the new kind of energy I keep talking about can be created.
That energy is your readiness to be touched – that is the feedback I call for.
We need great honesty. The courage to see things differently, to listen, trust, question and reach out.
We need above all COURAGE TO EMBRACE OUR REAL EMOTIONS, whatever they may be.
We live in a horribly sterile age, and we have to recognize this fact if we want to make a difference.
Why do you think your poetry was sitting on a shelf gathering dust? Why do you think my music shares the same destiny?
Because there is no living context today to share poetry, music and love.
These natural expressions have become some kind of either the privilege of some lunatics, “excentric rubbish” or superfluous undertaking – as nobody is interested in real emotion anymore.
Life has to meet life, otherwise I can recite my poetry or play my compositions to a wall…
THIS IS THE REASON WHY I WANTED TO START MIRRORS OF ENCOUNTERS:
Out of an inner urge to create true contact, some kind of extended context where, truth,
true knowledge and Art can blossom.
TRUE EMOTIONAL ENCOUNTERS GENERATE LIFE AND INSPIRATION.
God knows why, but people – for an unfathomable reason – DON´T WANT TO BE
TOUCHED ANYMORE, DON´T WANT TO FEEL ANYTHING.
Everything feels so hollow, because people refuse to look within, dismissing their feelings.
THEY REFUSE TO SEE HOW THEY REALLY FEEL. They want to remain dumb, numb,
hollow and indifferent.
It is this indifference to one another, but above all, this indifference I see in people when it comes to acknowledging their inner life, makes me infuriated.
Whatever is true has to be reciprocated – above all – in ourselves. To let that inspiration sink within us.
To give ourselves, but also one another, a little more space, patience, vivid and
genuine interest and loving attention.
Whatever you give yourself, that is, your emotions in unadulterated form, will reach out to me and everyone around.
Julien Matei
Mirrors of Encounters 