/lit/ - Literature

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>>12092899
I think it more as a kind of intelectual absence of separation, not a physical one.
I guess it is possible to end up accepting to be separated from something or from somebody in a physical way if it is necessary but is it really possible to be intelectually separated from anything ? God knows if I still think about her or about my dead cat, they are part of me forever now.

>>12095361
Your parents or to be more general all your loved ones always shape the way you see the world as much as you contribute to their.

It is another way of seeing this definition of love.
You don't have to give up your identity if you see it as the result of your love (absence of separation) for people and objects that surrounded you all you life.

>>10318992
I would, but every time I do, I'm already me.

>post a picture based on which you'd like a book recommendation
>recommend a book based on other peoples posts
>try to post original stuff

lets have one of these

>>7958933
We should pray to attain a state of holy exile; an irrevocable renunciation of everything in one's familiar surroundings that hinders one from attaining virtue. Holy exile is a disciplined heart, unheralded wisdom, an unpublicized understanding, a hidden life, masked ideals. It is private meditation, prayers for humility, a wish for simplicity, the longing for what is divine. It is overflowing love, a rebuke against vanity, a deep silence.

The Lord says that every prophet is without honor in his own country (Jn 4:44). We then must remember that our act of renunciation is not for empty honor. Holy exile is a spiritual separation from everything, in order that one may hold on totally to God. It requires great sacrifice. A holy exile is a fugitive, running from all that tries to distract him from God. Do not wait for souls that are still enamored with the world when you are pressing on your spiritual journey. Even our loved ones may not understand the spiritual task we are undertaking but we must wish them well and not let their doubts distract us from our eternal glory. Many set themselves on rescuing the indifferent and become lost themselves. The flame within them is dimmed by their environment. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know if it might be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. Not all of us are summoned to rescue others. "My brothers, each one of us will give an account of himself to God," (Rom 14:12) Paul reminds us. Again, he declares: "You teach someone else, but not yourself" (Romans 2:21). Paul is admonishing us for being so preoccupied with teaching others that we forget that God is the teacher and that we are all His students.

Once we are operating from a place of holy exile it becomes possible to liberate ourselves from attachments. Once you have left the world, there is no need to reach out for it; the Lord provides for you now.

We must beware the ways and guiles of demons. They come with the suggestion that we should not really abandon the world. They tell us of the riches that await us if we pursue worldly passions. We must not give in to their lies, in fact we must use the power of prayer to oppose them.

>>7525401
The more I learn about Orthodoxy the more I find they've ingeniously solved all of the problems of Christianity in the modern west. All the big questions that scare off people from Christianity have a subtle but perfect solution in Orthodoxy.

Figures a guy like Nietzsche could hate Christianity so much but then admire Dostoevsky and claim him as one of the few people from whom he still has to learn.

I love how ornate yet natural this one is.

>>6623998
*sigh*

bare body against the black and white silk
My penis leaks cum; the udder leaks milk

under the sky, alone in the night
hella fucked up and high as a kite

Me and my biddy just by ourselves
Into the piehole my rock hard shaft delves

MOO MOTHERFUCKER MOO

And that is the secret to Tillamook Butter
Every year on the Solstice you cum on the udder