aGkaanta, asRti, Parasamgate

Some of the last packages

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Here are some of the packages we have left, so you can check the one you love most:

To buy a CD, please direct your browser to: http://joyofnature.221design.com/shop.htm

Thoughts of Oscar Strik (Evening of Light) on card nr. 14

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:05:00 +0000

The cyclic movement - and that of the pendulum - is a recurring and profound theme throughout the history of human culture. It pervades a large portion of religion and art, and our modern post-industrial music scene is no exception. It seems a great number of artists seek the cyclic and eternal in nature and the world, as an antidote or compensation for the neverending struggle upwards of our Western civilisation, or alternatively, its decline and fall. In recognising the cyclic, we embrace our role in the greater scheme of things, we realise we are unique, yet part of a greater pattern.

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:07:00 +0000

This blog is integrant part of The Joy of Nature's album - "aGkaanta, asRti, Parasamgate" - a special handmade edition released to commemorate the ten years of existence of The Joy of Nature/The Joy of Nature and Discipline (the first is only a continuation of the last, with a different and improved approach to music).

Each CD comes in the package showed above, even though each one is different from the other, and comes with a unique handwritten card with some excerpt from a book or poem that you may find in the earlier posts.

We will publish here all writings about the music and words (how people fell about it, thoughts that arose from this work, etc), from everyone who gets this CD.
This is also a space for sharing views and thoughts related to what is contained in this release.

If you don't have this album and would like to buy one, please send us a message. You can listen to some tracks of this album here

Este blog é parte integrante do álbum de The Joy of Nature – "aGkaanta, asRti, Parasamgate" – uma edição especial feita à mão para comemorar os dez anos de existência de The Joy of Nature/The Joy of Nature and Discipline (o primiero é apenas uma continuação do último, revestido de uma diferente e melhorada forma musical).

Cada CD vem na embalagem acima mostrada, apesar de cada exemplar ser diferente, e contém um cartão único, escrito à mão, com um excerto de um livro ou poema, excertos esses que poderão ser vistos nos posts anteriores.

Iremos publicar todos os escritos acerca da música e palavras (como se sentiram, pensamentos que surgiram a partir deste trabalho, etc.), de quem tem um exemplar deste trabalho.

Este é também um espaço de partilha de pensamentos e visões relacionados com o que está contido nesta edição.

Se não possui este álbum e gostaria de comprar um, envie-nos uma mensagem. Algumas das suas faixas poderão ser ouvidas aqui

CARDS 91-100

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:53:00 +0000

Card Nr. 91:

«O greening branch!
You stand in your nobility
Like the rising dawn.
Rejoice now and exult
And deign to free the fools we are.
From our long slavery to evil
And hold out your hand
To raise us up.»

Hildegard von Bingen, "O greening branch"

Card Nr. 92:

«In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.»

Goethe, "The Holy Longing"

Card Nr. 93:

«The Master said,
'He who exercises government by means of his virtue
may be compared to the north polar star,
which keeps its place and all
the stars turn towards it.'»

Confucius, "The Analects"

Card Nr. 94:

«The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.»

Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

Card Nr. 95:

«When I look up to the blue sky, the emptiness of what exists is clearly evident to me and I do not fear the doctrine of the reality of things.
When I look at the sun and the moon, enlightenment arises in a distinct manner within my consciousness and I do not fear spiritual dullness and torpor.»

Julius Evola, "Meditations on the Peak"

Card Nr. 96:

«Besides, some people are already beginning to feel more or less confusedly that things cannot go on for ever in the way that they are doing and they even speak, as of something possible, of a bankruptcy of the western civilization, which no one would have dared to do a few years ago; but the real causes which may bring about this bankruptcy seem for the most part to escape them still.»

René Guénon, "East and West"

Card Nr. 97:

«When the mind, which is deluded by the apparition of the external world, has finally understood the teaching concerning the phenomena, it experiences that there is no difference whatsoever between phenomena and emptiness.»

Julius Evola, "Meditations on the Peak"

Card Nr. 98:

«Those who wished to overthrow all dogma have created for their own use, we will not say a new dogma, but a caricature of dogma, which they have succeeded in imposing on the western world in general; in this way there have been established, under the pretext of "freedom of thought," the most chimerical beliefs that have ever been seen at any time, under the form of these different idols, of which we have just singled out some of the more important.»

René Guénon, "East and West"

Card Nr. 99:

«O espírito ilumina a alma, da qual a matéria brota.»

Luís Couto

Card Nr. 100:

«When the perturbations of the psychic nature have all been stilled, then the consciousness, like a pure crystal, takes the colour of what it rests on, whether that be the perceiver, perceiving, or the thing perceived.»

Patanjali, "The Yoga Sutras"

CARDS 81-90

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Card Nr. 81:

«In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world.»

Yasunari Kawabata, "The Snow World"

Card Nr. 82:

«To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.»

William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

Card Nr. 83:

«O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?»

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream"

Card Nr. 84:

«Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken with ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.»

Dylan Thomas, "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines"

Card Nr. 85:

«You ask me why I live on Green Mountain?
I smile in silence and the quiet mind.
Peach petals blow on mountain streams
To earths and skies beyond Humankind.»

Li Po, "Green Mountain"

Card Nr. 86:

«If anyone injures you,
Serve him nicely.
If anyone persecutes you,
Help him in all possible ways.
You will attain immense strength.
You will control anger and pride.
You will enjoy peace, poise and serenity.
You will become divine.»

Swami Sivananda

Card Nr. 87:

«All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I.»

Li Po, "Alone Looking At The Mountain"

Card Nr. 88:

«The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.'
The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.'
Tao is the source of both.
But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.»

Chuang Tzu, "Letting go of thoughts"

Card Nr. 89:

«We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing.»

Arthur Machen, "The Great God Pan"

Card Nr. 90:

«And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot.»

Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

CARDS 71-80

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:00 +0000

Card Nr. 71:

«What is bound shall be loosed; what is divided shall be joined through love; love shall be overcome through hate; hate through knowledge; knowledge through oblivion: that is the stone of the diamantine void.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Angel of The West Window"

Card Nr. 72:

«You should know too that a good will cannot fail to find God, although the mind sometimes feels that it misses him and often believes that he has departed.»

Meister Eckhart, "The Talks of Instruction"

Card Nr. 73:

«For a thousand years and more men have learnt to understand the laws of nature and put it to their service. Happy are they that have understood the meaning of this labour, namely that spiritual laws are the same as the physical laws, only an octave higher.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Green Face"

Card Nr. 74:

«O que está mais próximo é invisível, porque está escondido no ser humano; nada é mais difícil de se tornar compreensível do que o evidente. Quando este é descoberto ou reencontrado, desenvolve uma força explosiva.»

Ernst Jünger, "Eumeswil"

Card Nr. 75:

«O homem moderno habitua-se a considerar a sua civilização como normal, e, consequentemente, normais também o conjunto dos comportamentos que mais a caracterizam. Quase não se apercebe de que todas as outras civilizações e todas as outras formas diferentes que no passado se deram à existência são medidas somente à escala daquilo que actualmente lhe é familiar.»

Julius Evola, "A Metafísica do Sexo"

Card Nr. 76:

«À medida que nos elevamos, os perigos aumentam como na corda bamba, a que já nenhuma rede consegue dar segurança, ou como acontece quando se atravessa a ponte de Sirat, estreita como o fio da navalha. Em nenhuma outra ocasião é mais forte a tentação de evocar os deuses, e maior o mérito de lhes resistir.»

Ernst Jünger, "Eumeswil"

Card Nr. 77:

«Que procuravam esses olhos cativos de ele ter nascido num tempo que não era o dele?»

Natália Correia, "As Núpcias"

Card Nr. 78:

«Abdicamos da vida absoluta quando a procuramos fora de nós, derramando-nos e perdendo-nos na mulher. É este o paradoxo da sede se a considerarmos do ponto de vista metafísico: a satisfação não extingue a sede, antes a confirma, pois implica um 'sim' dito a esta.»

Julius Evola, "A Metafísica do Sexo"

Card Nr. 79:

«Ai de ti!, refém da queda que o Imortal amortalha no filho que gera, forçoso te é penar nesse lugar de trevas porque o negrume é preciso para que a brancura possa triunfar.»

Natália Correia, "As Núpcias"

Card Nr. 80:

«Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight;
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.»

W.B. Yeats, "Into The Twilight"

CARDS 61-70

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:04:00 +0000

Card Nr. 61:

«The course and nature of things is such that
What was in front is now behind;
What warmed anon we freezing find.
Strength is of weakness oft the spoil;
The store in ruins mocks our toil.»

Tao Te Ching

Card Nr. 62:

«Nature favours nothing in particular. So everything has its advantage and disadvantage as well. What one gains on the one hand one loses on the other.»

Kaiten Nukariya, "The Religion of The Samurai"

Card Nr. 63:

«Nature is ruled by Nature, which destroys it, turns it into dust, reduces to nothing, and finally herself renews it, repeats, and frequently produces the same.»

Turba Philosophorum

Card Nr. 64:

«He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.»

Tao Te Ching

Card Nr. 65:

«A grain of sand you, trample upon has a deeper significance than a series of lectures by your verbal philosopher whom you respect. It contains within itself the whole history of the earth; it tells you what it has seen since the dawn of time; while your philosopher simply plays on abstract terms and empty words.»

Kaiten Nukariya, "The Religion of The Samurai"

Card Nr. 66:

«A mother of many children may be troubled by her noisy little ones and envy her sterile friend, who in turn may complain of her loneliness; but if they balance what they gain with what they lose, they will find the both sides are equal.»

Kaiten Nukariya, "The Religion of The Samurai"

Card Nr. 67:

«Words that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical.»

Tao Te Ching

Card Nr. 68:

«Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.»

Tao Te Ching

Card Nr. 69:

«Every second brings the question, 'Who am I?', but we do not ask it, and that is the reason why we cannot find the beginning.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Green Face"

Card Nr. 70:

«When a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few man stop to deliberate, and leave the path.»

Carlos Castaneda, "The Teachings of Don Juan"

CARDS 51-60

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:18:00 +0000

Card Nr. 51:

«People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.»

Hermann Hesse, "Demian"

Card Nr. 52:

«A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity.»

Bhagavad Gita

Card Nr. 53:

«We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.»

Hermann Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

Card Nr. 54:

«1. The hinkâra is spring, the prastâva summer, the udgîtha the rainy season, the pratihâra autumn, the nidhana winter. That is the Vairâga Sâman, as interwoven in the seasons.
2. He who thus knows the Vairâga, as interwoven in the seasons, shines (virâgati) through children, cattle, and glory of countenance. He reaches the full life, he lives long, becomes great with children and cattle, great by fame. His rule is, 'Never complain of the seasons.'

The Upanishads

Card Nr. 55:

«The universe, physical and metaphysical, is all one reality; and according to simple logic there can be only one truth, however limited, varied, and seemingly divergent its expressions in human language may be.»

W.T.S. Thackara, "The Perennial Philosophy"

Card Nr. 56:

«Existem diferenças qualitativas entre as maiúsculas e as minúsculas.
Nos pormenores encontra refúgio a verdade.
Já vos falei da subtileza das palavras
E do seu vazio?»

Luís Couto, "Poemas Anónimos"

Card Nr. 57:

«Na concepção tradicional, são as condições essenciais dos seres que determinam a sua actividade; na concepção profana, pelo contrário, não se têm em conta estas qualidades, já que os indivíduos são considerados exclusivamente como «unidades» intermutáveis e puramente numéricas.»

René Guénon, "O Reino da Quantidade e os Sinais dos Tempos"

Card Nr. 58:

«Das cinzas a criação;
O retorno da criação às cinzas
A cada instante imensurável,
No constante fluir das águas em torrente.»

Luís Couto, "Poemas Anónimos"

Card Nr. 59:

«A infinita e perene harmonia sempre esteve presente em todas as coisas. Sempre formou e forma a essência de tudo.»

Luís Couto, "Poemas Anónimos"

Card Nr. 60:

«O que serão os palácios e jardins da Terra comparados com os do Céu? Basta uma estrela para representar as grutas interiores.»

Luís Couto

CARDS 41-50

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:05:00 +0000

Card Nr. 41:

«Anyone who has experienced a complete absence of emotion, say for a year or two, knows that the universe is entirely made up of our feelings about it. In fact, it's just made up, period.»

Thomas Ligotti, "We Can Hide From Horror Only In The Heart of Horror"

Card Nr. 42:

«For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.»

Mircea Eliade, "The Sacred and the Profane"

Card Nr. 43:

«Both inner and outer music can serve as psychopompos – as leader of the Soul – to realms more real than Earth.»

Joscelyn Godwin, "Harmonies of Heaven and Earth"

Card Nr. 44:

«I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.»

Dante, "The Divine Comedy"

Card Nr. 45:

«If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.»

Hermann Hesse, "Demian"

Card Nr. 46:

«In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.»

Mircea Eliade, "Myths, Dreams and Mysteries"

Card Nr. 47:

«Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophesy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.»

Plato, "Phaedo"

Card Nr. 48:

«One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace.»

Bhagavad Gita

Card Nr. 49:

«Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.»

Hermann Hesse, "Steppenwolf"

Card Nr. 50:

«The contacts of the senses with the sense objects give rise to the feelings of heat and cold, and pain and pleasure. They are transitory and impermanent. Therefore, (learn to) endure them, O Arjuna.»

Bhagavad Gita

CARDS 31-40

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Card Nr. 31:

«Não há progresso que não seja acompanhado por uma regressão. Ou, mais sucintamente: no Universo, a soma das forças permanece constante.»

Ernst Jünger, "Drogas, Embriaguez e Outros Temas"

Card Nr. 32:

«Once you’re able to admit nothingness, you’re able to reach fullness.»

LC

Card Nr. 33:

«The ego does not like the Truth.»

LC

Card Nr. 34:

«Alcança-se a certeza quando se abandona todas as certezas.»

LC

Card Nr. 35:

«The doctrine of the highest science, called magic by the ancients, being no longer recognised in our days by official science, can only be presented to it under the name of Paradoxes, a word which signifies things above reason.»

Éliphas Lévi, "The Paradoxes of the Highest Science"

Card Nr. 36:

«Is our need to remain heedful of the principle that an injurious act, sooner or later, will bring us an injurious retribution.»

Hsu Yun, "The Empty Cloud"

Card Nr. 37:

«Therefore, do thou always perform actions which are obligatory, without attachment;—by performing action without attachment, one attains to the highest.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

Card Nr. 38:

«Whose undertakings are all devoid of plan and desire for results, and whose actions are burnt by the fire of knowledge, him, the sages call wise.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

Card Nr. 39:

«Free from pride and delusion, with the evil of attachment conquered, ever dwelling in the Self, with desires completely receded, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach that Goal Eternal.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

Card Nr. 40:

«The sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.»

Tao Te Ching

CARDS 21-30

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:29:00 +0000

Card Nr. 21:

«Poderíeis, com efeito, ser senhores do vosso destino, mas somente na condição de saberdes que sois Deus. Porque só Deus é senhor do destino.
Enquanto acreditardes que sois unicamente homens, separados de Deus, e distintos de Deus, continuareis como antes e o destino dominar-vos-á.»

Gustav Meyrink, "A Noite de Walpurgis"

Card Nr. 22:

«It is taught that delusions, adversities, personal tragedies and failures, even catastrophes may play the role of a hidden guru, of a spiritual teacher «sui generis»; they may be interpreted as signs to discern the right path.»

Julius Evola, "The Yoga of Power"

Card Nr. 23:

«Create a power to act without tiring. Let this power be cold, hard, and at the same time labile and flexible. The Secret of the Force consists in willing well, willing long, willing without ceasing – and in never yearning.»

Abraxas, "Introduction to Magic"

Card Nr. 24:

«You believe you can move your body around, but this is an illusion; on the contrary, it is your body that moves itself, merely borrowing your will. You think you can create thoughts. You are mistaken: it is your body that sends them to you so that you think they came from you, and do its bidding.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Path of Awakening"

Card Nr. 25:

«That which a religious man believes about God is nothing but a state that he himself could achieve, if he could only believe in himself. But he obtusely sets up obstacles over which he does not dare to jump. He creates an image to worship, instead of transforming himself into it.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Path of Awakening"

Card Nr. 26:

«The so-called waking life of ordinary human beings is nothing but a state of torpor, of drunkenness and dullness, a state of fog and unreality.»

Julius Evola, "Introduction to Magic"

Card Nr. 27:

«When a mirror is broken, it does not affect the object reflected in it, but its image disappears. It is in these terms that we must interpret the phenomenon of death.»

EA, "Introduction to Magic"

Card Nr. 28:

«The idea that everybody possesses an "immortal soul", conceived moreover as a facsimile of his living consciousness and individual earthly Self, is a true ideological aberration, although its usefulness as opium for the masses at times cannot be denied.»

EA, "Introduction to Magic"

Card Nr. 29:

«The structure of the microcosm is in accordance with the structure of the macrocosm.»

Emerald Tablet of Hermes

Card Nr. 30:

«Grande época acabou por chegar para o Diabo, pois também ele é amigo da comodidade e dos 'progressos'.
Muito melhor que andar passando más noites pelos montes, por descampados, por encruzilhadas, presidindo aos Aquelarres, é andar pelos laboratórios, onde, ao menos, se está a coberto, e onde o calor dos fornos traz à memória o fogo quotidiano do Inferno.»

Vicente Risco, "Satanás, história do diabo"

CARDS 11-20

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:13:00 +0000

Card Nr. 11:

«Todos são imortais. Tudo é imortal. Não há por que
Teres medo da morte aos dezassete
Ou mesmo aos setenta. Realidade e luz
Existem, mas morte e trevas, não.»

Arseni Tarkovski

Card Nr. 12:

«Acaba-se um acto na interminável peça de teatro. Não foi apenas mais um acto: foi um acto capaz de alterar o actor por detrás da persona. O actor, já já muito tempo que vagabundeava entre a representação e os passeios na floresta.»

LC

Card Nr. 13:

«Não creio que tenha sido o homem a inventar o divino e o sobrenatural, creio antes que foi a intervenção milenária do homem que corrompeu decisivamente o divino que o habitava.»

Antonin Artaud, "O Teatro e a Cultura"

Card Nr. 14:

«When one cycle closes, another begins, and the point at which a given process reaches its extreme is also the point at which it turns in the opposite direction.»

Julius Evola, "Ride The Tiger"

Card Nr. 15:

«Authentic existence is seen and sought when one senses the emptiness underlying that existence and is recalled to the problem of one's own deepest being.»

Julius Evola, "Ride The Tiger"

Card Nr. 16:

«Act without regard to the fruits, without being affected by the chances of success or failure, victory or defeat, winning or losing, any more than by pleasure or pain, or by the approval or disapproval of others.»

Julius Evola, "Ride The Tiger"

Card Nr. 17:

«Apart from purely external and social reactions, a man may suffer, feel remorse, guilt, or shame when he acts contrary to the tendency that still prevails in his depths (...). On the other hand, he feels a sense of satisfaction and comfort when he obeys that tendency.»

Julius Evola, "Ride The Tiger"

Card Nr. 18:

«Originally persona signified "mask": the mask that ancient actors wore in playing a given part, in incarnating a given personage. Thereby the mask possessed something typical, nonindividual, especially in the case of divine masks and even more clearly when used in many archaic rites.»

Julius Evola, "Ride The Tiger"

Card Nr. 19:

«No one can excel in the alchemical art without knowing the principles in himself; and the greater the knowledge of the self, the greater will be the magnetic power attained thereby and the greater the wonders to be realized.»

Agrippa, "De occulta philosophia"

Card Nr. 20:

«I believe that the old mysteries conceal much more dangerous things than knowledge of phases of the moon and eclipses of the sun, things that really had to be concealed – but which do not need to be concealed nowadays because the foolish throng would not believe them anyway, only laugh at them.»

Gustav Meyrink, "The Green Face"

CARDS 1-10

luis.couto@gmail.com (L) — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:49:00 +0000

Card Nr. 1:

«Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.
And being restraind it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.»

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell"

Card Nr. 2:

«The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.»

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell"

Card Nr. 3:

«If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.»

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell"

Card Nr. 4:

«'There are no new messages! There are no new messages!'. That woman's voice kept ringing in my head. I always find it difficult to start a new role. But, to start a new character, it's even worse.

LC

Card Nr. 5:

«Quando vivemos constantemente no abstracto – seja o abstracto do pensamento, seja o da sensação pensada, não tarda que, contra nosso mesmo sentimento ou vontade, se nos tornem fantasmas aquelas coisas da vida real que, em acordo com nós mesmos, mais deveríamos sentir.»

Bernardo Soares, "O Livro do Desassossego"

Card Nr. 6:

«Se não existiu Quioáqui, então também não existiu Issao. Não existiu Ing Chan e, quem sabe, talvez não tenha existido eu.
Pela primeira vez apareceu força nos olhos da Abadessa.
- O que se passa em cada coração, é isso mesmo.»

Yukio Mishima, "A Ruína do Anjo"

Card Nr. 7:

«A beleza não teria igualmente o direito de exigir que a considerassem, que por ela renunciassem ao resto? Tocar com uma mão a eternidade e com a outra a vida é impossível.»

Yukio Mishima, "O Templo Dourado"

Card Nr. 8:

«Na vida, o instante com as cores da eternidade embriaga-nos; mas o Templo Dourado sabia que isso não tem valor perante o preço da eternidade revestindo o aspecto desse instante. E é nesses momentos que a Beleza inalterável é capaz de paralisar as nossas vidas, destilar os seus venenos nas nossas existências.»

Yukio Mishima, "O Templo Dourado"

Card Nr. 9:

«Rhythm is a universal law. The sense of rhythm in man in the world, and their harmonization, produces an awakening of consciousness and reveals the occult in life.»

Leo, "Introduction to Magic"

Card Nr. 10:

«Rhythm is a universal law. The sense of rhythm in man in the world, and their harmonization, produces an awakening of consciousness and reveals the occult in life.»

Leo, "Introduction to Magic"