TED Talk: The Art of being yourself
TED Talk: The Art of being yourself
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„You’re not your thoughts, because you think them. And you can’t be your feelings, because otherwise, who’s the you that feels them? You’re not what you have You’re not what you do You’re not even who you love or who loves you. There has to be someone underneath all that”
MIchael Foucault
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openculture.com Prisons. So many cages, so many theatre rooms. If the prison is a mataphor of our society – we.re all in little cages, with invisible bars, with a world wide theatre hall – with millions of tiny theatre rooms. Called Facebook pages. Foucault never joined the gay liberation movement, for the same reason he...
Corida in Madrid
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You should know that corida shows still take place regularly in Madrid. I have been there during a quick travel to Madrid, from Porto, when I was Erasmus. Neither the bull nor the toreador where deadly hurt. Some people have asked me how could I see something like this and maybe...
If
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If I had an all time favourite poem, it would definitely be IF by Rudyard Kipling. I read this poem in times of saddness, of dispair, in times of pondering upon my life. And each time it still reveals emotions, wisement, morality. I truly believe that if we all conducted our life upon this poem,...
Control is about as real as a one-legged unicorn taking a leak at the end of a double rainbow.
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It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to.
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The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.
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The five colours make a man blind, the five tones make a man deaf, because if you can only see five colours, you’re blind, and if you can only hear five tones in music, you’re deaf. You see, if you force sound into five tones, you force colour into five colours, you’re blind and deaf. The world of colour is infinite, as is the world of sound. And it is only by stopping fixing conceptions on the world of colour and the world of sound that you really begin to hear it and see it.
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