The important things in life cannot be understood second-hand.
They need to be experienced first-hand.
But be careful.
They might kill you.

Saint Simeon with the Christ child - José de Ribera

As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord:
And to offer a sacrifice, according as it is written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons:
And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.
And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when his parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,
He also took him into his arms and blessed God and said
Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace:
Because my eyes have seen thy salvation
Luke 2:23-30

Moscot Lemtosh - Black

Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
—James 4:8

Meteora
Greek: Μετέωρα
•Middle of the sky
•Suspended in the air
•In the heavens above
A rock formation in central Greece hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.

‡ S, falling in love cannot occur twice; it means there is no chance you can fall in love twice, for if love is the hemorrhage and a manifest catastrophe, then nothing is left in the lover to fuel another love and fall in love once again. Love empties all possibilities of recovery. Falling in love is a one way ticket to the end of health. Barthes suggests that love is cyclic, that for each love there is a phase of recovery and at the end of each recovery another love is waiting. This cycle strikes me not as love but flirtation, flirtation with survival. A lover who constantly falls in love (the Barthesian lover) flirts either with the survival of himself or his emotions. Love in this sense, only reinscribes survival. And when it comes to survival, human desire is already a dead ruin. In Barthes' account, it is not love that matters but the 'next love' which presupposed the survival of the lover and the regeneration of his health. But love's sole enthusiam lies in consuming every possibility of falling in love again. Cyclic love is like Chinese Erotics, in which sexual excitement is held back in order to have multiple climaxes. I love to recover to love someone else to recover to love someones else... This is indeed an inventive formula, but one for survival, not for love. The Love-Recovery cycle that Barthes maps in his works is of course Proustian but deeply resembles the ever refining self-fertilizing cycle of Aristotle (nothing must be wasted as it is needed in the next phase of the cycle, the next love, the next recovery from the last love). If for Avernus there is only one irreversible descent, then descending again is merely an attempt to keep ascending an escaping Avernus. Love ensures the failure of escape. Love is only thinkable as one and only one tyrannical possibility: falling in love once and for all. Viva the chain. Ok S, im tired ... signing off
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials - 2008 - Reza Negarestani
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