We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. All of life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life is just one long day separated into sections by sleep. Life never stops happening until you are dead. So whatever happens-love, grief, hate, shame- never disappears. It just gets easier to live with. It just scabs over, waiting for something else significant to happen. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'll fall.''You wont fall.''I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>