Ich hatte einen Freund, der hatte sich so eine Theorie zurechtgelegt. Von der Welt nichts zu wollen, damit er ganz er selbst sein kann. Der wollte keine Spuren hinterlassen. […] Ihr seid alle immer so vernünftig, hat er gesagt. Ihr plant alles, deswegen habt ihr immer Angst, dass was nicht klappen könnte. Immer Programm. […] Nein, ich weiß nicht wo er jetzt ist. Der ist einfach verschwunden.

— Alle meine Mädchen; inszeniert von Iris Gusner, 1980

Your soul knows. Listen.

Günther Uecker

* 13.03.1930 - † 10.06.2025

Wo die Sprache versagt, da beginnt das Bild.

The only spiritual life you need is not to react.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

Everyone else isn't you. It turns out that's a huge problem for me.

— Clementine von Radics

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For man, time can't just disappear without a trace, because it's subjective, belongs in the category of spirituality. The time we lived through are stored in our soul as layers of experience bound by time. In some ways the past is much more real or at least more stable and constant than the present. The present is ever elusive and disappears like sand through fingers and only achieves material weight in memory.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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Zwischen Decke und Boden;

Gregor Schneider, HAUS u r, 2025

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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

— Aldous Huxley

Rashômon; dir. by Akira Kurosawa, 1950

Your life is your life. Don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you.

— Charles Bukowski

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Chariots of the Gods; dir. by Harald Reinl, 1970

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Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.

― Ernst Jünger

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

— Joni Mitchell

Analog music makes your life better.

What we need is: Less, but better.

— Dieter Rams

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Harry Dean Stanton; ph. by Wim Wenders, 1984

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Probleme, die dauerhaft unlösbar bleiben, sollten immer als falsch gestellte Fragen verstanden werden.

— Alan Watts