Almost Nirvana, a photo by AMERAZIGANIIRAO on Flickr.
Almost Nirvana. Amera Ziganii Rao
It's the bitter loneliness that marks someone as the condemned. There are no appeasements and no one to understand. It is as it is. And the only peace is acceptance and knowing it is not deserved or karmic or anything else. It is what it is. Just loneliness. The highest level of existence in a useless world. Being and nothingness. The mystic's path of hell.
Amera Ziganii Rao ©
It's inside you now, this bordello virus, this pleasure that tastes so much of anger and grief. It's all just a game. You're going to play it too; you're going to dance with the tiger. Remember your instructions. Listen up. And suffer. This is the tango.
Enrique Fernandez
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonise with this order.
Henry Miller
It is intrinsic in every human being to mother something, to create something. Don't take it literally, because a man can also become a mother, just as a woman can become a mother. Picasso is a mother; he mothered so many paintings. Anyone who creates is a mother; motherhood is a by-product of creativity.
Osho
We have different degrees of happiness and different kinds of suffering. Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
Dalai Lama
The ability to live with constant loneliness and a strong revulsion for the banalities of everyday society. The most important thing a writer can have.
Hunter S Thompson
Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. And spirituality is for people who've already been there.
Liza Minelli
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
One cannot but feel sympathy and even admiration for Hemingway in his lifelong struggle against crippling emotional shocks and scars, and be sustained and uplifted by the fact that out of that struggle, he created some of the most beautifully and powerfully written stories and novels of our time.
Literature Online
The wise are wise only because they love.
Paulo Coelho
And if I go insane, will you still let me join in with the game?
Pink Floyd
It is not just unrequited love or unfulfilled love that a mystic has to let go of. It is unrequited life and unfulfilled life. The privilege of the damned. Those apparently closese to God/The Universe. The mystics, the artists, the secluded, the solitary and the bitterly lonely. Those who come here to explore the unseen and try and half live in the seen. I accept my sentence and wait for a life. In non waiting. 46 years was not long enough. The sentence continues unabated and endless. No appeasements, no explanation. No humans. No life. They tell me I am destined for Nirvana, Terrestrial Paradise. In other words, they meant a life. One day. Until then, the ongoing deep, inner journey on Earth. Incarceration and bitter loneliness. Thanks. And all because I believe in my human rights. I believe in my right to be a woman, who is more than a female eunuch, an artist who is more than a shallow banale wage slave and a human being, who is more than a cog in the wheel of the machine of The Matrix. No wonder no one makes the journey. It takes everything you have. And that's just for starters. Incarceration it is. Bitter loneliness it is. Unrequited love it is. Unrequited life it is. I will believe and I will return to Eden one day. It is written.
Amera Ziganii Rao ©
An artist, I hang all hope of redemption on ephemeral, incandescent dreams. Roping faith into filaments of light, I climb on sunbeams into the very eye of God.
Chris Kani, Kalkuta Republic. Written during incarceration.
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