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Sink or Swim

by Pier Marton | Apr 12, 2012 | Care, Dance, Ego, Health, Ideas, Music

From my other blog: Water is that ancient friend that reminds us of our original body, all the way to before our birth. And now… elegance, grace, and efficiency can be combined! Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on...

Meditation (Without Magic/Sans Magie)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, Exp, France, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Mystery, Now, Quotes, Time

To meditate has meaning only if you have the same attitude towards it as you have towards going to the toilet in the morning. You don’t do it to get enlightened. You do it because it is natural, like when you wake up, you go to the toilet, you brush your teeth, you...

To Forget Is To Kill Twice. Pier Marton

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Art, Death, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Photo, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Pier Marton on the Resistance & the Shoah “My parents’ generation will slowly disappear,” says Marton, “but the energy that created the Holocaust is still there. To forget is to kill twice.” Pier Marton in Savannah Morning News. Click to email a link to a friend...

Alter Goldman Interview (Le Père de Pierre & Jean-Jacques’s Father)

by Pier Marton | Mar 6, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars

English Below Entretien avec Alter Goldman (L’homme qui est entré dans la loi : Pierre Goldman) Wladimir Rabi (Editions La Pensée Sauvage, supplément à la revue “les temps modernes” numéro 353, décembre 76) Voici comment le père s’exprime malgré son allergie “à toute...

Citations de Picasso

by Pier Marton | Mar 5, 2012 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Photo, Quotes

Si l’on sait exactement ce qu’on va faire, à quoi bon le faire ? Le métier, c’est ce qui ne s’apprend pas. Les autres parlent, moi je travaille. C’est dangereux le succès. On commence à se copier soi-même et se copier soi-même est plus dangereux que de copier les...

Science (Friday) To The Rescue!

by Pier Marton | Feb 18, 2012 | Care, Eco, Ego, Food, Health, Ideas, iOS, Podcasts(E), Sci/Nat, Time

NPR’s Science Friday (Sci-Fi BE is a great app) Be Here Now: Meditation For The Body And Brain An interview w. “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” author Mark Williams, an Oxford University clinical psychologist + The Oxford...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus