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the unreal never is: the Real never is not.

“invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. they are seen between two unseens. why in this truth find sorrow?”

Lord Krishna to his warrior Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita (via nondialogues)

“Enduring pleasure and pain, drowned in the great ocean of doubt, you shall wander in numerous reincarnations.
You have lost the jewel of human birth by forgetting God; when will you have such an opportunity again?
You turn on the wheel of reincarnation, like an ox at the oil-press; the night of your life passes away without salvation.
Says Kabir, without the Name of the Lord, you shall pound your head, and regret and repent.”

Kabir, Adi Granth (via santmat)

Marlene Dietrich & Noël Coward, 1937.

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Firefly Hill
Port Maria
Jamaica B.W.I.

Oh, darling,

Your letter filled me with such a lot of emotions, the predominant one being rage that you should allow yourself to be so humiliated and made so unhappy by a situation that really isn’t worthy of you. I loathe to think of you apologizing and begging forgiveness and humbling yourself. I don’t care if you did behave badly for a brief moment, considering all the devotion and loving you have given out during the last five years, you had a perfect right to. The only mistake was not to have behaved a great deal worse a long time ago. The aeroplane journey sounds a nightmare to me.

It is difficult for me to wag my finger at you from so very far away particularly as my heart aches for you but really darling you must pack up this nonsensical situation once and for all. It is really beneath your dignity, not your dignity as a famous artist and a glamourous star, but your dignity as a human, only too human, being. Curly is attractive, beguiling, tender and fascinating, but he is not the only man in the world who merits those delightful adjectives…Do please try to work out for yourself a little personal philosophy and DO NOT, repeat DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable. To hell with God damned “L'Amour.” It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don’t run after it. Don’t court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you’re good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves…I am sick to death of you waiting about in empty houses and apartments with your ears strained for the telephone to ring. Snap out of it, girl! A very brilliant writer once said (could it have been me?) “Life is for the living.” Well that is all it is for, and living DOES NOT consist of staring in at other people’s windows and waiting for crumbs to be thrown to you. You’ve carried on this hole in corner, overcharged, romantic, unrealistic nonsense long enough.

Stop it Stop it Stop it. Other people need you…Stop wasting your time on someone who only really says tender things to you when he’s drunk…

Unpack your sense of humor, and get on with living and ENJOY IT.

Incidentally, there is one fairly strong-minded type who will never let you down and who loves you very much indeed. Just try to guess who it is. XXXX. Those are not romantic kisses. They are un-romantic. Loving “Goose-Es.”

Your devoted “Fernando de Lamas”

Noël Coward giving his beloved friend Marlene Dietrich some damn good advice.  [taken from The Letters of Noël Coward.]

(Source: lettersofnote.com)

La Blogotheque presents Cee-Lo Green en un concert a emporter.
(13 feb. 2012)

La Blogotheque presents Willis Earl Beal en un concert a emporter.(19 oct. 2012)

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.”

Deepak Choprah

ANATOMICAL COLLAGE BY BEN GILES

UK, Kingston-based artist Ben Giles (Tumblr / Society 6)

“once a moth, circling around a lamp about to make the fatal plunge, spoke to the flame: “what do you know of love! all you do is stand there as i whirl about you until i can no longer bear to remain separated from you and i embrace you. and in the moment i embrace you i am consumed, burned into nothingness. the flame smiled and replied: “you fool! do you call that love? look at me, i am burning. you burn only when you embrace me, but in my longing for you the pain of my separation from you has transmuted me into fire itself.”