On meaning, mercy, and the ethics of perception. What it means to see without protecting yourself from what you see.
Prologue — Why Speak of Grief Again? This is not an article. It is a long, difficult essay. It will resist you. You will not read it in one sitting, and you shouldn’t. To rush it would be to flatten…
We believe we choose. But choice is a mask. Only error breaks the frame, leaving a trace that cannot be erased. This is the only form of freedom. Take a candy. There are two. Take the one in the middle….
Everyone says, «listen to yourself,» «trust your intuition.» But no one says: how do you distinguish real intuition from fear, from habit, from suggestion? We think we know. But more often than not, we just repeat what worked once. Or…
Trust is not faith or hope. This is physical knowledge, cold and simple, like stepping into an elevator with the certainty that the cable will not break. It’s like entering a house with the conviction that the architect and builders…
My essay is inspired by Arsal Abbas Mirza’s article «By the Roses». In this text, Dostoevsky’s «White Nights» does not appear as a quotation, but as a feeling — hope and self-denial. I will continue from there: about grace, the…