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Answers can be wrong, but math never makes mistakes…

Feet may get tired, but distances never shrink…

Words written on sand slowly fade away,

The colors in our eyes start to lose their shine,

Strong emotions become weaker over time,

Even the most stubborn wishes eventually settle down.

These days, forgetting has become a habit…

Poems, messages scattered across the city,

Old paths that disappeared without a trace,

The evening sky reflecting in the lake—

Everything is slipping away from memory.

And now, all I remember…are those deep, dark eyes.

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Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

It happens in poetry, in music, in dance, only for a small moment that you slip out of your personality and touch your individuality. But only because it happens for a small moment, you are not afraid; you always come back.

In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

-Osho, Rinzai: Master of the Irrational, Talk

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LinkedIn: the official playground for professional posers and virtual peacocks. Witness the parade of self-congratulatory posts and shameless self-promotion, as users compete in the ultimate game of corporate one-upmanship. In this virtual circus of inflated egos, authenticity is as rare as a unicorn sighting. Welcome to the land of exaggerated resumes and embellished achievements, where every connection is just another notch on the belt of delusion. Cheers to LinkedIn, where the facade is as thick as the corporate handbook, and the only thing genuine is the mockery it invites!

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We don't really want to get what we think that we want.

I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.

You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.

It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.

This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire.

- Slavoj Žižek

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

- Slavoj Žižek

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Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. People intervene all the time, "doing something"; academics participate in meaningless "debates," etc.; but the truly difficult thing is to step back, to withdraw from it all. Those in power often prefer even "critical" participation or a critical dialogue to silence, since to engage us in such a "dialogue" ensures that our ominous passivity is broken. The "Bartlebian act" I propose is violent precisely insofar as it entails ceasing this obsessive activity-in it, violence and non-violence overlap (non-violence appears as the highest violence), likewise activity and inactivity (the most radical thing is to do nothing).

- Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

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When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

- Slavoj Zizek

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Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

-Slavoj Žižek