Peace lies in the absence of the need and desire for peace.
Peace lies in the absence of the need and desire for peace.
― Atrona Grizel
Living inside
oneself means no one can take or steal anything from the person. But it also
means no one can give or gift them anything real either…
― Atrona Grizel
What is meant by
the “real world” is most often not the “real” but merely the physical one.
―
Atrona Grizel
They say, with
the naive belief that they are complimenting, “The world becomes a better place
with you in it.” Because they are bound to humanity. They still carry the aim
of “improving” what was already designed. They try to nurture and expand the
existing reality, because they lack the mental capacity for creation through
destruction. The world of the herd exists only to be overthrown—so that another
world may be erected atop its ruins.
― Atrona Grizel
Is it possible
that Earth is my exile, and somewhere else in this vast universe is my home?
That observable universe is my cage, and beyond it is where I actually
originate, eliminating any kind of memory and time?
― Atrona Grizel
People absorb the
world shaped by the social world, “constructing” their thoughts, feelings,
words, actions, identity, and beliefs accordingly. Which means they will think
in the same way, feel the same things, use the same words, do the same actions,
have the same identity, and carry the same beliefs as the rest of the society.
― Atrona Grizel
As long as
society continues to regard views that contradict the majority not as
expressions of reality but merely as “different perspectives,” it will not
mature.
― Atrona Grizel
In democracy,
quality means quantity; it is not about what kind of people gather around an
idea, but how many. Similarly, it’s not how deep the idea is, but how many it
attracts.
―
Atrona Grizel
The people around
me were exactly the same five years ago as they are now. They have a rigid and
determined personality, and it never changes. Five years from now, they’ll
still be the same. They’re so predictable that I can even foresee their old
age. As for me, thanks to my lack of a “personality,” I turn from fire to water
and from water to fire in just five days. Because I am nothing in particular,
thus I can become anything I want.
― Atrona Grizel
The ordinary
majority cannot transcend their worldly view in terms of thought and behavior,
which means it is only a microscopic space on Earth that means their whole
existence to them.
― Atrona Grizel
Since their minds
have been conditioned to seek stimulation, people can’t tolerate even the
slightest moment of silence and stillness. They either hum something, make
melodies by hitting objects, or openly complain about “how boring” the
situation is—then proceed to open “prophetical topics” to talk about at length.
They desperately need something that regularly stimulates their brains in order
to feel “entertained.
― Atrona Grizel
People are taught
everywhere, from advertisements to schools and from media to relationships,
that they must always follow their instincts, that if they are not
“self-confident,” they will not be loved by anyone, or that they must change
things “to make the world a better place” and “contribute to the common good,”
which leads them to have a primal, worldly view and an empty, shallow sense of
individuality.
―
Atrona Grizel
Nothing can be
explained to those who are ready to give up everything in order to remain
attached rather than to remain alone.
― Atrona Grizel
Normal people
have nothing to forget, for they never even possess the ability to form
memories—because they do not have an inner life to begin with.
― Atrona Grizel
Questions like
“Is this normal?” or “Am I weird?” reveal how deeply the concept of being
“normal” is embedded in the subconscious of the ordinary majority. They don’t
mean “Is this ordinary?” or “Am I a product of a photocopy?” when they ask
these things, of course. In fact, they are not even consciously trying to
conform to norms, even if their words might suggest otherwise. It is simply
that they have internalized the association of the word “normal” with the idea
of “good.” Even in medical devices, when a patient’s condition is good, the
indicator often says “normal.” Why not “good” but “normal”? Because the two are
treated as equivalent. As soon as they see or hear the word “normal,” the
patient and those around them feel a sense of relief. And, as a result of this
being repeated many times in this way, they become unconsciously conditioned.
From countless such implications, plant-like minds that are alien to
questioning internalize this ideology and eventually come to judge everything
through it. But what if “normal” is not healthiness but rather sickness?
― Atrona Grizel
The love of
artists or mystics is often “artificial,” but not in the conventional sense of
“cheating.” Because they find beauty in thought alone, intimacy in invention,
or ecstasy in silence. They love whom they choose, not whom the outer world
permits. For they do not carry the outer world within their inner world;
rather, it is their inner world that holds power over the external one.
Therefore, they do not love the person presented by the outer world but the one
portrayed by their inner world. Hence, they do not love the person presented by
the outer world but the one presented by their own inner world. And that is not
the person’s “real” self, but a “realized-reality” version of them.
― Atrona Grizel
In no place where
its sign openly and blatantly says “Love Center” can the thing called “love” be
found.
―
Atrona Grizel
Pain makes a
person an artist; that soul now carries the ability to create entire universes.
―
Atrona Grizel
What society
teaches people is not to guard themselves like precious gold that must not be
stolen, but rather to make them forget that they themselves are valuable
gold—encouraging them to scatter this gem within outwardly. If one pays
attention to those who have internalized and ritualized the selling of their
soul, it becomes clear: they possess dozens of interests and pursuits, paint
colorful pictures, and write rich texts. Yet still remain inwardly colorless
and empty.
― Atrona Grizel
All of my
writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system
devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied monster—even its own
“critics,” or perhaps especially its “critics.” The system sells even its own
“resistance,” which is why “counterculture” is, in fact, serves to and created
by the very thing it claims to oppose.
― Atrona Grizel
The default
digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy,
emoji-based validation, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty. They assume
communication is always good, that speaking is a virtue, and that interaction
is life. Because they know nothing.
― Atrona Grizel
In a certain
period, a particular piece of news becomes popular, and people start talking about
it everywhere and all the time. Then, this news fades into the past and is
replaced by another. People begin thinking and talking about that one.
Eventually, it too is replaced by yet another. And now, people are interested
in this new topic, calling it “following trends.” This is a predictable and,
therefore, mechanical cycle.
―
Atrona Grizel
To worry is a
luxury. For the one who worries has the energy and time to be spent on
worrying.
― Atrona Grizel
Language is a
form of performance, because one adapts their mind to the other side when they
speak or write. One must express themselves confined within certain words and
rules that are beyond their rule, or else the other side won’t understand them.
But the moment one considers the other mind more, they detach from theirs.
―
Atrona Grizel
To belong is to
be defined, to be defined is to be measured, and to be measured is to be
judged. If a person belongs to nothing, then there is nothing by which they can
be judged; one cannot condemn what slips through every set of norms and
doctrines.
―
Atrona Grizel
Rainbow is the
lost child of the rain.
―
Atrona Grizel
The need for
“harmony” is like plugging the mouth of a pipe to prevent the sewage inside
from spilling out. Beneath it lies a subtle demand: “Mute your contradictions,
blunt your edges, be like the external, become harmless,” which is perfect to
create easily manageable masses. For a person who is pursuing “balance” does
not live in peace, but in anesthesia. They have weaknesses for “solution” and
for “resolution.” After every kind of “opposition,” “extremity,” “negativity,”
or “contradiction” is eliminated like sins, what valuable thing could remain?
Each heart beats at different milliseconds, in its own milliseconds. Why would
someone see this as a “disorder” and attempt to “correct” it? Social discourse
insists on “living in accordance with nature,” while the same society threatens
the environment and ravages nature in practice. Do they really want to be like
nature? Meaning primitive, ignorant, unreflective, unquestioning, unjudging,
and unconscious? For example, a person losing their mind under prolonged
isolation is biologically normal. After that, do they still want to be
“natural”? To adapt means to die—not vice versa.
―
Atrona Grizel
A person can live
their entire life within four walls and still have a rich existence, for
everything is possible with a unique inner world nourished with an astonishing
sense of art and philosophy.
― Atrona Grizel
The features of
authoritarian and totalitarian regimes include the complete suspension of
freedom of speech—with a brutal honesty, even if cloaked in propaganda. The
West, on the other hand, is entirely hypocritical. This is the clash between
overt repression and covert manipulation.
―
Atrona Grizel
When I imagine
the future—decades from now—this is what always appears in my mind: one side
obscenely rich, the other utterly poor. A person belongs either to the “noble
class” or to the proletariat. There is no middle ground. And in truth, one can
already see signs of this today. The simplest way to understand it is to
compare the life of an average rich person to that of an average poor one. The
rich indulge themselves on yachts, drifting from drinks to sushi, from bars to
vacations, while the poor toil endlessly, rummaging through garbage on the
streets. Their children mirror them: the capitalist’s child, spoiled by ease
and security, does nothing but chase pleasure, show, and amusement, whereas the
poor one’s child struggles even to find clothes to wear. What I want to draw
attention to here is not economic or ideological but sociocultural: these two
come from entirely different worlds, yet they are still the same in essence.
One cannot think because of too much leisure, the other cannot think because of
the absence of it. That is why the world appears to be in a constant,
relentless rush. If these classes were somehow equalized—if such a thing were
possible, in a hypothetical world—I believe the world would not become entirely
tranquil, but it would at least become much calmer. This would destroy the
compulsion to survive and the compulsion to consume, which are signs that one
is nothing more than an animal. And perhaps then there would be room for deep
reflection and questioning; humans might even transcend their humanity. Because
both the constant drowning of the soul in pleasures and the perpetual worry of
keeping the body alive destroy all nobility and forever prevent genuine
existence of the individual. As long as the condition of utter worldliness
persists, those wandering around will not be beings with consciousness and
awareness, but merely drifting silhouettes.
― Atrona Grizel