WALKING AS A PHYSICAL PRACTICE AND AS AN ALLEGORY

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On this occasion I wanted to share some of my thoughts (aphorisms) in which I used the word WALK (or path, road, way), either as part of my daily practice that I did for most of my life and as a metaphor, a great assistant in the linguistics of all genres and symbolic languages.

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Several years ago I edited a small book where I exposed all those aphorisms that over time have assaulted my mind, while I wrote the various essays and novels, but also as an effect of some of my plastic works; its title “Aphorismic tones. According to the forgetting of my silences”. Usually, they were all reminiscent or resonance of what I was writing, but also during my work as a painter; however, they have also been the result of the reverse process. The publication resulted from 200 aphorisms with their respective 200 plastic works. I can guarantee that a considerable percentage of them came to mind as I walked.

Now that I had this idea to see how many of them had the “WALK” root and also the noun “ROAD” surprised me a little, although since I started the Blog I began to realize that this word of WALK we use it regularly to express a great diversity of ideas or thoughts, so the complete writers use this word to express themselves, in all literary genres.

• The peak of greatness is achieved through WALKING the chasm of humility.

• The PATH should not necessarily be defined by the one ahead.

• Humanity has always tried to WALK through the sunny part of the ROAD; from time to time you should step away and test the shaded areas and especially the dark parts.

• The harder a ROAD is, the more important the goal is.

• I remember my parents very well, especially my mother, loving me, teaching me to WALK down the hall, but never whipping me to climb the walls.

• You may have to sacrifice both the conscious and the unconscious, and be reborn on a ROAD to nothing.

• WALKING invites me to read, reading encourages me to think, and my thinking when WALKING generates and extracts the deepest ideas of my being.

The following are some of 14 recommendations for just living:

• You can listen to your conscience, but your unconscious has more to tell you and it is who will lead you along the right WAY. (This is the 1st recommendation).

• Every day WALK for long periods and feed yourself healthily: air, water, sun, bath, and natural fruits; these are the fundamental ingredients. (This is the 14th and last recommendation).

• To achieve the peak of awakening and enlightenment (liberation) you have to WALK the chasm of humility. (It is similar to the firsth)

• No one should be afraid of death if they have lived genuinely and vitally in the light of their own spirit, under the guidance of the strength of particular reason, by feeling of personal emotions and under the PATH of knowledge indicated by instincts and individual unconscious

• My spirit goes astray because of the feeling (and emotion) affected, thus, the truth in disagreement with the lie, and good and evil are taken by the hand, while Mr. Time observes WALKING to virtues and entelechies with their names deceived and disappointed of utopia and chimera.

• My only friend: nature; my best partner: time; my engine: libido; my WAY: doing; my respects: to the sun; my love: Carmen.

• The human being has always been able and always will be able to WALK through any of the 2 sidewalks of the street: the illuminated one or the cover of shadows.

• My books, my computer and my easel are indoors, but my artistic creation is done outdoors, WALKING.

• The human body withers when it does not search and does not find the way or path to WALK, in the same way it happens to waters that have no exit and do not move, they become a swamp.

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