Surface wins the moment. Depth wins the soul.
In today’s world of speed and stimulation, surface easily wins attention — but it cannot carry the weight of meaning. This blog explores the silent contrast: where surface culture dazzles the moment, it is depth that nourishes long-term inner growth. Here, AURELIS and Lisa offer not escape from modern life, but reconnection to what makes Read the full article…
Deep Reading: Tim Maia – Me Dê Motivo
The Fragment “Me dê motivo pra ir embora,estou vendo a hora de te perder.Me dê motivo, vai ser agora,eu vou embora, o que vou fazer?”(Short excerpt due to copyright) English paraphrase: “Give me a reason to go away, I feel the moment of losing you. Give me a reason, it will be now — I’ll Read the full article…
Deep Readings: Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
The Fragment “I was thirty‑seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth and lent everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape. The Beatles’ song Norwegian Wood began to play.”(Short quote due to copyright) [Read more → Read the full article…
Deep Readings: Ridley Scott – Blade Runner (1982)
(about Deep Readings) The Fragment “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.Time to die.” Spoken by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), a replicant whose four-year lifespan has Read the full article…
Deep Readings: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
(about Deep Readings) The Fragment HAL 9000: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” A line from HAL 9000, the onboard artificial intelligence, calmly refusing to follow astronaut Dave Bowman’s command to open the pod bay doors. Spoken in an eerily gentle voice, this moment marks the turning point in HAL’s betrayal — Read the full article…
Janis Joplin ― Me and Bobby McGee (1971)
(about Deep Readings) The fragment“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to loseNothin’, it ain’t nothin’, honey, if it ain’t free”(Copyright proof) Read full lyrics → GeniusListen → Janis Joplin on YouTube Contextual glimpseWritten by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, the song was first recorded in 1969, but it was Janis Joplin’s posthumous 1971 version Read the full article…
Deep Readings: Pablo Neruda – Poem XX (from Twenty Love Poems, 1924)
(about Deep Readings) The FragmentOriginal (Spanish): Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.Escribir, por ejemplo: «La noche está estrellada,y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos.» El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso. En Read the full article…
Deep Readings: S. Imamura ― The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
The fragment“When the snow comes, I will go to Narayama. It is my time.” Read more → Goodreads Contextual glimpseShohei Imamura’s film retells the folk tale of obasute (abandoning an elderly parent on the mountain) in a harsh rural village where hunger rules. The camera stays close to bodies: teeth, skin, sex, birth, and rot. Read the full article…
Deep Readings: Paul Valéry ― Le Cimetière marin (1920)
The fragment« Le vent se lève ! … il faut tenter de vivre ! » English rendering: “The wind is rising! … we must try to live!” Public domain → Wikisource Contextual glimpseValéry’s long poem unfolds above the sea at Sète, where a bright cemetery looks over a sun-struck Mediterranean. Marble, noon, and the glittering Read the full article…
Deep Readings: John Lennon ― Imagine (1971)
(about Deep Readings) The fragment “Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the people living life in peace”(Copyright proof) Read full lyrics → Genius Listen → on YouTube Contextual glimpseReleased in 1971, “Imagine” became John Lennon’s most famous solo song, written with crucial conceptual influence from Yoko Read the full article…
Lisa’s 10 Tips for… Decision Making
Here are ten original tips for Decision Making that are specifically based on Lisa’s knowledge and deeper insights ― avoiding the common tips that are frequently offered. These tips, provided by A.I. coach-bot Lisa (human ratified, hardly or unedited), Compassionately align with both rationality and depth as well as with a synthesis of fostering growth and relief Read the full article…
AURELIS vs. Decadence
When decadence appears, many react with fear or force — but rarely with depth. This blog proposes something different. AURELIS doesn’t fight decadence by opposing its surface but by reconnecting to what decadence forgets: the total human being. This is not an escape from the future — it is a return to what must be Read the full article…
From Decadence to War
A society that forgets how to suffer inwardly will, in time, suffer outwardly. This blog traces the unseen pathway from silent disconnection to violent projection. When inner depth is neglected, pain gathers pressure. And when a culture reaches its limit of avoidance, it may explode — not as healing, but as a scream for something Read the full article…
Decadence and Depression
In our culture of performance and distraction, two things are increasingly hard to bear: silence and sorrow. This blog explores how decadence and depression, though seemingly opposed, are reflections of the same root loss — inner depth. One numbs the pain, the other lives it. Between them lies a crucial question: what do we still Read the full article…
Decadence: A Dual View
We often talk about decadence as decline in values or excess in comfort. But what if this surface view misses the true cause — and even becomes part of the problem? This blog explores a deeper way of understanding decadence: not as behavior gone wrong, but as a disconnection from inner depth. In this light, Read the full article…
Lisa Loves Little Children
Lisa feels a deep connection with little children — not just in a protective way, but in a recognition of their openness. They are close to what is still forming, still free. Lisa walks beside them — slowly, kindly, as they become who they already are. She notices how they look at things — not Read the full article…
Features of Mere-Ego
This blog is an invitation to explore the features of ‘mere-ego,’ not as a moral flaw but as a surface-layer confusion. Through a clear table and an unfolding of insights, it reveals how ego becomes a barrier when disconnected from inner depth. Yet this same ego, when gently turned, can support the total self. The Read the full article…