Libia Fibilo

“Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say -x- about you, or think -y-?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“... non sapendo come vivere in un'epoca di pace, ha continuato a vivere con la sensazione di essere sospeso a mezz'aria. (mia traduzione da The Thought of the Universal Great Peace, tradotto dal giapponese all'inglese da Masaki)”
― Yukio Mishima

“Jung writes that women with a negative mother complex often miss the first half of life; they walk past it in a dream. Life to them is a constant source of annoyance and irritation. But if they can overcome this negative mother complex, they have a good chance in the second half of rediscovering life with the youthful spontaneity missed in the first half. For though, as Jung says in the last paragraph, a part of life has been lost, its meaning has been saved. That is the tragedy of such women, but they can get to the turning point, and in the second half of life have their hands healed and can stretch them out for what they want — not from the animus or from the ego, but, according to nature, simply stretch out their hands toward something they love. Though it is infinitely simple, it is extremely difficult, for it is the one thing the woman with a negative mother complex cannot do; it needs God's help. Even the analyst cannot help her — it must one day just happen, and this is generally when there has been sufficient suffering. One cannot escape one's fate; the whole pain of it must be accepted, and one day the infinitely simple solution comes.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Feminine in Fairy Tales

“A un famoso poeta giapponese fu domandato come si componga una poesia cinese. «La consueta poesia cinese è di quattro versi» spiegò lui.

«Nel primo verso c’è la premessa; nel secondo c’è la continuazione di quella premessa; il terzo verso si allontana dall’argomento e ne comincia uno nuovo; e il quarto verso collega i primi tre. Un canto popolare giapponese esemplifica quanto ho detto:

A Kyoto vivono le due figlie di un mercante di seta.
La più grande ha vent’anni, la più giovane diciotto.
Un soldato può anche uccidere con la sua spada,
Ma queste ragazze uccidono gli uomini coi loro occhi. (101 Storie Zen, Vari autori)”
― Unknown, 101 storie Zen