To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
   

Si un escritor se enamora de ti, nunca morirás.
    

Si lo que quieres es tener mucho, probablemente has viajado poco.
     

Mantra 49

We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.
  

Ce personnage parle à la première personne, comme s'il était tout et faisait tout, alors qu'il ne fait que regarder, mais cela a son importance.

  

El truco para no llorar cortando una cebolla está en no establecer ningún vínculo sentimental con ella.

Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.

  

Cae la tarde, mientras tomo mate. Suenan las campanas de la parroquia, y en el cielo se funden el celeste y el rosa. Suena profundo un jazz, y en el fondo quiero que estés conmigo, acá.

¡Salut mon ami y beacoup de bisus de ton alumna ( no me sale)!!!!
  
(Gotta love my students, haha!)
   

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being a man or woman, or even human, should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

It does not mean that you must be brainless and foolhardy, improvident or indifferent; only the basic anxiety for oneself must go. You need some food, clothing and shelter for you and yours, but this will not create problems as long as greed is not taken for a need. Live in tune with things as they are and not as they are imagined.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj
  

If you are grateful, you are not fearful. If you are not fearful, you are not violent.

If you are grateful, you act out of a sense of “enough” and not of a sense of “scarcity”, and you’re willing to share.

If you are grateful, you enjoy the differences between people and you are respectful to everybody. And that changes this power pyramid under which we live and it does make for equality but it also makes for equal respect, and that is the important thing. The future of the world will be a network, not a pyramid, not a pyramid turned upside down.
  

And all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.
  

Les gens ne sont ni bons, ni méchants. Ils changent, c’est tout. Ou plutôt ils se transforment. Et ce qui compte, c'est de voir et de comprendre en quoi ils se transforment. Ils sont comme de petits démons : d’un jour à l’autre, ils deviennent un peu plus lourd, un peu plus léger, plus sombre, plus lent, plus nerveux, plus doux, plus dur ou plus humain.

   

Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?

Just for today, we are here. We are alive. And with that aliveness comes a profound responsibility to do what we can. To make meaning and beauty out of what is.
   

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mantra 43

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

-Thomas Paine
  

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.
  

El viernes pasado Adriana Bolívar dijo que hay una crisis del diálogo y yo le creo. Si de cada cinco mensajes que mando recibo uno solo como respuesta, sin dudas hay un diálogo disfuncional. O un pronunciado desinterés. O simplemente boludeces de mi parte que no ameritan respuesta. Ah, qué bonito, merecer el silencio.

Y así es como nos damos manija.

  

Le temps que je n'écris pas, je survis.