HeyJaredImagined Paris Podcast
"I just lie here being blue, spilling my heart to you - Paris, Paris, comment vas-tu?"Paris memoirs from Imagined Paris (imaginedparis.com), written by Dina Oktaviani, London-based poet and parisian partout dreaming, living, and writing Paris.
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IP78: Cut! (opens the original)
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"Cut! No more performing. But me performing is part of being myself, as much as my intention to stop performing is part of being myself. Either it’s a curse or a play, I cannot help but be myself. A wave cannot fall out of the ocean." (Read the full text on imaginedparis.com )
IP77: Narziss and me (opens the original)
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"I cried for pages as Goldmund went through the pain of seeing what he previously deemed holy now cold and meaningless and what he used to deem selfish and immoral now pure and healing, in other words essential instead of merely necessary. Am I not still going through the journey of self-acceptance myself? After years of conditioning, which, for the most part, was traumatising and trapping me in guilt and fears, worst of all, of being my true self...." (Read the full text on imaginedparis.com )
IP76: Certainty, perceived (opens the original)
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"You see how it works? It’s a constant… Ah, I don’t want to call it battle… Process! It’s a constant process dropping the ego, even the superego – the self. They are part of me, they are inseparable, they’re supposed to keep me safe, and moral – wait, moral is just part of safety. I just need to be conscious of them, aware of them and not allow them drive my decisions and actions because it isn’t necessary. They aren’t necessary..." (Read the full text on imaginedparis.com )
IP75: See you when I see you (opens the original)
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"It's raining where I am and I reckon it's the same where you are. It's hardly been two days since I left you and I am okay, almost like for the first time, but I have no time to talk about the series of heartbreaks that visited..." (Read the full text on imaginedparis.com )
IP74: Absolutely not (opens the original)
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"I’m happy and it isn’t a sulky “I’m happy” that characters throw around in a movie when they can’t get what they want, par exemple. When you flow in the river of life, you don’t cling on to every shiny log in your way for too long - you go around it, you go over it. People aren’t logs - yeah, and the logs aren’t always shiny; let them go regardless. There are people and things that can flow with you longer, perhaps for very long, but the desire to own is what stops you from flowing. Let them fl
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