“To suffer. It means god is near. Grace–like a scalpel without anesthesia. — Anna Kamienska, Notebook
“I plunged into my hour of death. My deathrattle hour. Hour of last kisses. Grave hour the captive bells dream of. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Then I realized I had been murdered They looked for me in cafes, cemeteries and churches …. but they did not find me They never found me? No. They never found me — Federico Garcia Lorca, from “The Fable And Round of the Three Friends”,
“Yes, his use of sex and violence are provocations. But they’re also a means of being more honest about what we are: flesh that bleeds, flesh that is desirous.” — Violet Lucca, from “David Cronenberg: ClinicalTrials”The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923from The Fran Lebowitz Reader“Elegance is a way of moving. It is also knowing how to adapt to all of life’s circumstances. Without the elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.” – Yves Saint Laurent
— St. Gemma Galgani’s autobiography, which the Devil allegedly tried to burn.
Moist and Dry Souls Fragments 36, 37, and 38 refer to the human soul as either moist or dry. Another reference comes from Aristotle, who in his De Anima (I. 405 a, 25-28) says, crediting but not quoting Heraclitus, “Soul is the vaporization out of which everything else is derived.” 38 We do not know to what extent this idea belongs to Heraclitus or whether Aristotle is drawing this conclusion from the references we already pos- sess, but the concept of vaporization related to soul helps us with the following fragments.
Fragment 36 reads, It is death for souls to become water, as it is death for water to become earth; water comes to be from earth, as soul comes from water. If we read “death” here as destruction or loss of material nature, we can see a range of alteration in the trans- formation of water into earth and earth into water and then water into soul.
Soul has a nature of its own, we would assume, not necessarily connected directly with human nature but obviously influenced by it.
The key is a range of refinement into aspects of animation.
Another writer, Arius Didymus, has Heraclitus saying,
“Souls are vaporized from what is moist.”
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This phrasing suggests that when human beings are born, their souls are formed in water, or, as Wheelwright phrases it, “vaporized from that generative moisture,” which he objectifies as the womb.
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From that state the soul dries or vaporizes into divine nature through the influence of higher consciousness.
— Richard Geldard, Remembering Heraclitus—
Imam Al-Ghazali This is How You Lose the Time War // Gideon the Ninth
“I am the angel of nothing.” — Kingdom Animalia; Self-Portrait as the Airplane (Ode to the Noise in the Ear), Aracelis Girmay
Men theorize about love, but women are more often love’s practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it. — bell hooks, All About Love
“Hanging out with girls, smoking, fraternizing with girls, talking to girls on the telephone while smoking, smoking with girls.”
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