I HAVE ADDED SOME NEW NOTES TO MY BOOK - I AM ON APHORISM 484 AT THE MOMENT:

484

Living with passion.- Livelihood is about being drawn to things, there is the gravity of the universe, of planets. There is also our private universe of things, and one must not try to stay, things are always moving to and thro. Not the gravity of mass, but the gravity of living. Living means one is a part of life, and things are always shifting in life. All living things are the tools of life, the tools which life uses to move things in life, thus our emotions are the servers of life; we cannot serve ourselves. Life is about things moving, perhaps elevated thoughts moving to consciousness, or a music record of the past, or to look at somebody’s expression.

One shifts with a smile of a thing from the past, a path to innocence, one looks up, and a path to another smile - a path to something authentic, then one has a slight smile, and this is a path to originality. Life is about living, but living has to feel original - the idea of living is that one is living, and not pretending to live. But more, living needs to feel authentic, one does not want to fake life for living is not about carrying influences, one must suffer from life; this is about being close to living.

Commentary on 484

This aphorism was inspired by these questions:

What does it mean to hide one's pain?
What does it mean to display all of one's pain?
What is physical pain?
What is emotional pain?
What is spiritual pain?
What does it mean to express feelings?

What do people want to see?