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Apostolul Pavel


Leonard Oprea created The Breathing, a new kind of essay in the Romanian and universal literature. The Breathing is a short, simple but profound meditation about human condition, a meditation ended by a haiku.
But - this haiku does not end the meditation. In fact, this haiku RE-opens the meditation to new interrogations and answers about the human condition. There are 100 Breathings in Leonard Oprea’s book “Theophil Magus – Confessions 2004-2006” / Ed. Universal Dalsi, 2007, Romania /.
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ABOUT STUPIDITY

Jesus Christ does not love stupidity.
Simply, he cannot.
Nobody is born stupid.
There are stages of intelligence, as there are stages of heart.
But the heart and intelligence are in perfect complementarity.
And the lack of one can be compensated by the surplus of the other.
The only true definition of stupidity is and always will be – wickedness.
The 9 (nine) beatitudes enounced by Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount Preachment (Matthew 5 / 3-11) clearly and plainly define the wickedness (stupidity).
Because the contrary of each beatitude, and of their sum too, is not the unhappiness but the wickedness (stupidity).
Once the wickedness (stupidity) appeared in the world the Hell’s gates opened too and Satan meets you with bread and salt and welcoming music.

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" ... yesterday, today...
the July heat in Maine, look...
the crows eat the wind..."

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I'M MUSIC…
… today-yesterday-tomorrow, oh yes, I'm Music.
Why ?
Just because the Music is the ONLY image of Death.
Just because the Blues is Me.Just because the Jazz is Me.
Just because Mozart & Beethoven is Me.
Just because God is all the Music.
Just because … did you hear the Music in you, with you, surrounding you and, and, and …BEING you ?
Music…
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"… oh, my poor heart who…
who could make you happy always ?
… oh, that loneliness…"

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TO BE ALONE…

… to be alone:
today like yesterday
tomorrow like today
through the past through the future
it’s nothing wrong into millennium…the third,
just because:
to love yourself as if you are the neighbor
to be alone it seems to be against your Fait
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and on the Cross Jesus died alone
today like yesterday
tomorrow like today;
who cares let me know ?
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“… I see this blue stormand I start to breath deeply… oh, the warm-soft rain…”
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( from "Theophil Magus - 1001 Breathings" // All rights reserved. Copyright © 2008 by Leonard Oprea. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. )