The End of Blossom...

...do not fear it.

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Compilation of the Heart - Good Job!

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Temptation tempted.

don't you, don't you stop, stop

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Compilation of the Heart - All the Way

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Quando il sole tramonta in Puglia...

Mi dispiace così tanto.

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Translation:

Compilation of the Heart - The Grain of Sand that became the Center of the Universe

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This. For so short a time.

From one of my favorite books: The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

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Compilation of the Heart - Drive

gotta stay calm, this is cruise control

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Not my Latitude! (52°N)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Mignon I

(Translation; alternate Translation)

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La vie est breve

(human lifetime max. ~) 650,000 h x 60 sec = 39,000,000 sec

tick-tack

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Compilation of the Heart - Start there

That is a peaceful place within. From there everything else is possible.

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Die Bilder, die in uns sind

The things we see, are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd.

Hermann Hesse – Demian

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Funny how a Melody sounds like a Memory

To This Day When I Hear That Song / I See You Standin' There All Night Long / Somewhere Between That Setting Sun / I'm On Fire And Born To Run / You Looked At Me And I Was Done / And We're, We're Just Getting Started / I Was So Alive, Never Been More Free / I Bumped Into You By Happenstance / You Probably Wouldn't Even Know Who I Am / But If I Whispered Your Name / I Bet There'd Still Be A Spark / Even Though You're A Million Miles Away / Think About The Stars In The Sky / Funny How A Melody Sounds Like A Memory / Springsteen, Springsteen / I Remember You / I Remember You / I Remember Springsteen.

Archive: Till then...

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Compilation of the Heart - What if?

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The Mind's Eyes

Imagination is the unconscious playing with our minds, allowing diverse thinking and creativity. It's extended reality. For what can't  be envisioned one will look at like a pig in a clockwork, it's the mind in a cage.

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Compilation of the Heart - Universal Synthesis

To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. [...]

Why atoms take this trouble is a bit of a puzzle. Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level. For all their devoted attention, your atoms don't actually care about you – indeed, don't even know that you are there. They don't even know that they are there. They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. [...]

The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting-fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. And that's it for you. [...]

The only thing special about the atoms that make you is that they make you. That is of course the miracle of life.

Bill Bryson - A short History of nearly Everything, Introduction

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Universal Synthesis... ♥

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If you go away You must tell the World to stop turning till...

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Jewish Cemetery Wankheim

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It'll all come back to you

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The Wilde ones

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

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Paul Bourget

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All you have

Now is all you have. All you will ever have.

What you couldn't take with you to the present moment is gone. It's memory.

All you carry is the memory of what was, the hope for what will be.

You have to let go of the past before you move on to the future, or it will tear you apart.

Accept the now, it is all you have.

How can I?

My kind of... - Personal Homage

I. Part

Thank you for being there!

Ever since the City by the Lake; "the town that won't let you down"!

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I just fell in love with this Quote:

Source

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Compilation of the Heart - The Heart and the Meat Market

The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm (full text pdf)

I. Is Love an art?

IS LOVE an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one "falls into' if one is lucky? This little book is based on the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter.

This peculiar attitude is based on several premises which either singly or combined tend to uphold it. Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they follow several paths. One, which is especially used by men, is to be successful, to be as powerful and rich as the social margin of one's position permits. Another, used especially by women, is to make oneself attractive, by cultivating one's body, dress, etc. [...]

Many of the ways to make oneself lovable are the same as those used to make oneself successful, "to win friends and influence people." As a matter of fact, what most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object, not the problem of a faculty. People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to 

be loved by – is difficult. This attitude has several reasons rooted in the development of modern society. [...]

This new concept of freedom in love must have greatly enhanced the importance of the object as against the importance of the function.

Closely related to this factor is another feature characteristic of contemporary culture. Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. [...]

At any rate, the sense of falling in love develops usually only with regard to such human commodities as are within reach of one's own possibilities for exchange. I am out for a bargain; the object should be desirable from the standpoint of its social value, and at the same time should want me, considering my overt and hidden assets and potentialities. [...]

In a culture in which the marketing orientation prevails, and in which material success is the outstanding value, there is little reason to be surprised that human love relations follow the same pattern of exchange which governs the commodity and the labor market. [...]

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I guess we're all trying to find the best match, an equivalent, to underline or highlight certain aspects of our life or character. If we're really divided in those who want to be loved and those who want to love actively, the difference is, beside motivation, in what values we mainly search for in the other person. It's the difference between looking for love and looking for a lover, between simple and complicated. In German there exist actually two words to describe the one loving somebody, "der Liebende", and the one being loved, "der Geliebte".

If we're looking for love we're looking at potential partners with kindness, willing to embrace the person as a whole, work for love, find perfection in imperfection and may be rewarded if openness, trust, and hopefully, love are offered in return.

Maybe it's more complicated for the marketing people. They need to be perceived in such and such a way to fit their successful life concepts, thus not wanting their own imperfection to be revealed. For them, much more than the actual personality of a person must be considered.

Sometimes it's easy to see what a person is looking for, according to their own self-marketing strategies. Though falling short to the whole complexity, one could banalize that Mrs. Bikini is looking for the best tool in the home depot, while Mr. All-mighty is in the department store, preferably designer store, buying himself the perfect purse or jewelry.

What is kind of sad is, that those with the lowest self-esteem work the hardest for a “successful public appearance”, looking for a partner serving that purpose and finding attraction in the marketing of those, with equivalent interests of their own. This might be a perfect match, but also like same poled sides of magnets. Who has the lowest acceptance of oneself is likely to be less acceptant towards others as well, possibly finding in the end that each partner pulling mostly in his or her own direction is like pulling in two different directions.

Though both types, the ones wanting to love and the ones wanting to be loved, can find heaven or hell, can find “true” love, in either type of partner, there is still the little difference of “I was looking for someone like you” and “I was looking for YOU”.

What is about loss? Painful for both types, the lover loses the most precious, the most unique and loved, but not love; the other type gets another punch in their self-esteem-region and must do everything to level that again, “show must go on”.

I wonder what's more tragic in the end...

As love seems so often to act on principals alike to the “labor market”, I am really for the introduction of a social curriculum vitae – at least you know what you get.

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Die Kunst des Liebens -Erich Fromm (pdf 1. Kapitel; komplettes Hörbuch: Link)

I. Ist Lieben eine Kunst?
Deutsch:

You. In the Crowd. In the World. - Telling myself the Story over and over.

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“In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement; only then can each day be different from the last. [...] Going farther and farther, distancing yourself from your personal history, from what you were forced to become.”

“How does one go about abandoning the story one was told?” 

“By repeating it out loud in meticulous detail. And as we tell our story, we say goodbye to what we were and, as you’ll see if you try, we create space for a new, unknown world. We repeat the old story over and over until it is no longer important to us. [...] As those spaces grow, it is important to fill them up quickly, even if only provisionally, so as not to be left with a feeling of emptiness.”

“How?” 

“With different stories, with experiences we never dared to have or didn’t want to have. That is how we change. That is how love grows. And when love grows, we grow with it.”

“Does that mean we might lose things that are important?” 

“Never. The important things always stay; what we lose are the things we thought were important but which are, in fact, useless, like the false power we use to control the energy of love.” 

   Paulo Coelho – The Zahir

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I want to live within / Cause I can’t live without / I want to build it up / So it can break me down / You are Like the summer rain / You are What I can’t explain / You are The hurt inside / You are What I cannot hide / And again, and again / And again, and again / The murder inside / The murder inside / The murder inside / The murder inside / The murder inside.

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My Brain thinks tis funny^^

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There is Truth in the Space Between

and "If you could read my mind, Love
What a tale my thoughts could tell [...]
And if you read between the Lines
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to Understand"
If you could read my Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

  

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Respiri Piano

Would You?

The version I wanted to share (not available from Germany): ♥ 

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One from within, one from... without

Despair means to find no rest,

to find no peace,

to find no hope,

to find no way out.

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Petrified

that two, or one, are almost what they seem

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"Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout..."

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Compilation of the Heart - And I Walk

Although the road is never ending

Take a step and keep walking,

Do not look fearfully into the distance...

On this path let the Heart be your guide

For the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Rumi

We're chained

Are we?

 

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Compilation of the Heart - Wading shallow Waters

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world.

But what else are you!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther, Part II, June 16th

Literal: Yes, well I'm just a wanderer, a pilgrim on earth! Are you more, then?

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Should Old Acquaintance be forgot,
and never thought upon;
The flames of Love extinguished,
and fully past and gone:
Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold,
that loving Breast of thine;
That thou canst never once reflect
On Old long syne.

CHORUS:

On Old long syne my Jo,
On Old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
On Old long syne.

James Watson - Old Long Syne

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Fault Lines

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Compilation of the Heart - Firewood

One spared.

Danke schön für's Finden und Fotografieren! ♥

Das Herz liegt jetzt ausgesägt auf meinem Schreibtisch.

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NOW, your chance in Causality.

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Compilation of the Heart - Zeitgeist

What you term the spirit of the times

is at bottom only your own spirit

in which the times are reflected.

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust I, Night

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Compilation of the Heart - Along the Way

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Compilation of the Heart - What can we see

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