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Love Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

In my mind

Psychological Properties Of Colours

There are four psychological primary colours - red, blue, yellow and green. They relate respectively to the body, the mind, the emotions and the essential balance between these three. The psychological properties of the eleven basic colours are as follows. RED.  Physical Positive : Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight', stimulation, masculinity, excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain. Being the longest wavelength, red is a powerful colour. Although not technically the most visible, it has the property of appearing to be nearer than it is and therefore it grabs our attention first. Hence its effectiveness in traffic lights the world over. Its effect is physical; it stimulates us and raises the pulse rate, giving the impression that time is passing faster than it is. It relates to the masculine principle and can activate the "fight or flight" instinct. Red is strong, and very basic. Pure re

Remorse

Why do we sometimes do stupid things? Sometimes I don't understand myself... Sometimes I think that I am a strange person :-(

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Words   lost   in space words   beloved   by the wind and thrown   to the ground. The whisper   of the wind   next to   my ear , told   me your   deepest secret . I could not believe   it was true, the truth that you    love me . My lips   joined     yours, in a   ballad,   danced   and made love.

Top 10 Things That Determine Happiness

photo:  meddygarnet Happiness is, by nature, a subjective quality with a definition like a moving target. There is scant evidence — qualitative or quantitative — to lend convincing support to those life variables most critical in determining individual happiness, which is likely why past researchers committed to the scientific method rarely tried to tackle the subject. This is changing. Take, for example, the World Database of Happiness in Rotterdam, self-described as a, “continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life.” Also, take the positive psychologists, a movement whose “members” perform scientific research into the nature of happiness and who published Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification, an 800-page behemoth that outlines all the characteristics, behaviors and conditions that lead to happiness. While we’re not entirely convinced of this marriage between science and subjectivity, we can still offer up a top 10 of things

Lisbon revisited (1926)

Nothing binds me to anything. I want fifty things at once. With an anguish of longing hunger for flesh What I do not know who is - By undefined definitely ... Restless sleep, and live in a restless dream For restless sleepers, half dreaming. I closed all the doors and abstract required. Curtains ran every chance I could see the street. No cross found in the port number they gave me. I woke up to the same life that had fallen asleep. Until I dreamed armies suffered defeat. Even my dreams felt false to be dreamed. Until the desired life just fills me - until this life ... I understand the disjointed intervals; I write for lapses of fatigue; And that is boring to the boring throws me to the beach. I do not know what fate or future incumbent upon my affliction without a rudder; I do not know that the southern islands can not wait for me shipwrecked; or palm of literature at least give me a verse. No, I do not know this, or something else, or anything else ...

10 Psychological Effects of Nonsexual Touch

Psychological research on how a simple (nonsexual) touch can increase compliance, helping behaviour, attraction, and signal power. To get around in the world, we mainly rely on our eyes and ears. Touch is a sense that's often forgotten. But touch is also vital in the way we understand and experience the world. Even the lightest touch on the upper arm can influence the way we think. To prove it, here are 10 psychological effects which show just how powerful nonsexual touch can be. 1. Touch for money A well-timed touch can encourage other people to return a lost item. In one experiment, users of a phone booth who were touched were more likely to return a lost dime to an experimenter (Kleinke, 1977). The action was no more than a light touch on the arm. People will do more than that though; people will give a bigger tip to a waitress who has touched them (Crusco & Wetzel, 1984). (Stop giggling at the back there!) 2. Touch for help People are also more likely to pr

don't even need a translation... this is universal !

Body Language: Understanding the basics

UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS This is 'good' to Westerners, 'one' to Italians, 'five' to Japanese and 'up yours' to the Greeks Everyone knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and, within minutes, give an accurate description about the relationships between those people and what they are feeling. The ability to read a person's attitudes and thoughts by their behaviour was the original communication system used by humans before spoken language evolved. Before radio was invented, most communication was done in writing through books, letters and newspapers, which meant that ugly politicians and poor speakers, such as Abraham Lincoln, could be successful if they persisted long enough and wrote good print copy. The radio era gave openings to people who had a good command of the spoken word, like Winston Churchill, who spoke wonderfully but may have struggled to achieve as much in today's more visual era. Today's politicians understand