Tag: Presence
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In the Time of Unveiling – 2: Between Nostalgia and Invention — The Two Illusions of Escape
When a worldview collapses, the first instinct is to escape. Some try to go back — to recover the world before the rupture, to restore the lost forms, to rebuild what once gave meaning.Others try to go forward — to invent something radically new, to design new values, new identities, new worlds beyond the ruins.…
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The Truth of Eros – 4: Love Is Not a Feeling — Presence, Fidelity, and the Seeing of the Real
Love, we are told, is a feeling. A high, a warmth, an affection. It comes, it grows, it fades. We fall into it. We fall out of it.We measure it by intensity, by closeness, by how often we feel “seen” or “safe.” And so love becomes fragile.When the feelings shift — as they inevitably do…
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The Wound of Time –4: The Joy Beyond Time — Freedom from Progress and Regret
We are taught to see joy as something rare, fleeting, or earned. It comes, we are told, when things go well — when the work pays off, the path becomes clear, the healing takes hold. Joy is imagined as a moment at the far end of progress, the prize after suffering, the reward of time’s…
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Male & Female 6: Man in Flight — Desire, Power, and the Refusal of Responsibility
If the modern woman’s crisis is often rooted in the fear of form, the modern man’s crisis is found in the fear of weight — of responsibility, permanence, and the call to be more than what he desires. Both are symptoms of the same metaphysical rupture: the severing of the self from Being. But while…
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It Is What It Is 