Enforcement and bullshit artists

 There is a certain infallibility to scrutiny once you unlearn from its accusations or melodrama albeit against your better mastery of any particular thing.

However, if that level of scrutiny isn't sincere - only to disguise it wraped into some kind of gift box.

The way to this truth is seeing.

While the search for truth is an endless path.

You mustn't compare youself to others. The real scrutiny you may have to overcome is while your search for it is finite, there are people from all classes that rather concentrate on their suntan.

- Marco

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What acts as a calming influence in you should be greatly exaggerated; held onto... as opposed to the high maintenance projects we get ourselves caught in that negates the mastery of self preservation. This exaggeration is when the curtain raises on each moment of every thought you carry. Some call upon it being the imagination. Other's might learn to adopt this as a secret life.

- Marco

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Walk in solitude, though you live in society. —Krishnamurti

Context: It is becoming more and more difficult to be physically alone. Most people don’t want to be alone; they are afraid to be alone; they are occupied. They want to be occupied from the moment they wake up until the moment they go to bed. Even then, they are haunted by dreams. Those who live alone, in caves or as monks in their cells, are never alone, for they live with their images, their thoughts and the practices which promise future fulfilment. They are never alone; they are full of knowledge and full of the darkness of the cave or cell. One must be an outsider, not belonging to anything or to anybody. But you cannot fight your way out, for then you still belong to it. The very action of fighting your way out is the action which makes society tick. So you must die to society, so that the new life comes into being without your knowing it. And so walk in solitude, though you live in society.

From Meeting Life

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Far and away the most crucial aspects of Pessoa's work that I wholeheartedly agree with....

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Living, it seems to me, is a metaphysical error of matter, a mistake of inaction.

I look attentively at the traces of absorption and distraction that are erased in it.

No problem has a solution.

We use our feelings indiscriminately to resolve the problems of our intelligence, and we do it because we are tired of thinking or because we are too timid to draw conclusions, out of an absurd necessity to find support, or out of a gregarious impulse to return to others and to life.

Since we can never know all elements in a problem, we can never solve it. We lack the data necessary to attain the truth as well as the intellectual processes that would exhaust the interpretation of those data.

- Fernando Pessoa

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1- Seeing is having seen.

2- the thing we suppose is alive in the supposition.

-Fernando Pessoa