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  It all goes back to when we were tiny babies. "Humans are programmed to have an opioid (opiate-like) response to a protein found in milk (casein) so that infants will continue their desire to consume adequate amounts of their mother's milk.  Cheese, which is a concentrated form of milk, also induces this effect. These protein compounds, called casomorphins, combined with the high amount of fat and salt are what is responsible for the popular obsession with cheese. Thus, the more you have, the more you crave—as devised by nature." From  25 Foods That Make You Hungrier  https://www.eatthis.com/foods-that-make-you-hungry/

 Happiness is a way of acknowledging your inherent hopelessness in the face of death. It is the first gasp of air you breath in once you have come out of the depths of despair. Conscious of the inevitable existence in a physical universe and the dreary wait that it entails, and yet without any deliberate motive to end it, you simply don't despair. Death inflicts happiness. 

  “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!  ... ”

Memleket Kokusu Zeytinyagli taze fasulye ile birkac karpuz kabugu.

"You are not committed to something unless you are willing to sacrifice for it. Commitment and sacrifice are the same thing ... you have to sacrifice that which is most valuable to you currently that is stopping you. And God only knows what that is.  It's certainly the worst of you, certainly that. God only knows to what degree you are in love with the worst of you..."

"Resentful people who want to change the world are not to be trusted."

" Mystery is the catalyst for imagination , and maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge."

-What is truer than truth? +The story.

Stories are antidote to bias.

‘We must recover the seriousness of a child at play’  Nietzsche

" A poem is stored energy, a formal turbulence, a living thing, a swirl in the flow. Poems are part of the energy pathways which sustain life. Poems are averbal equivalent of fossil fuel (stored energy), but they are a renewable source of energy, coming, as they do, from those ever generative twin matrices, language and imagination."

"Kuşlar söyler ahvâli, ahvâl bilir hakikati."                                                           - Geyikli "All over the world learning the language of animals, especially of birds, is equivalent to knowing the secrets of nature...."                                                       - Mircea Eliade

''Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man -let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall- or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.''

Home is where I lay my dreams.

The element of obscurity, related to nature's self-concealment, is necessary to the soul's capacity for growth, for it vexes the latter toward self-dependence.

Experience is mind-centered and free of reference to actualities of space and time.

If value resides everywhere, it resides nowhere, as it ceases to be a basis for making distinctions and decisions.

Wilderness is above all an opportunity to heighten one's awareness, to locate the self against the nonself. It is a springboard for introspection. And the greatest words, those which illuminate life as it is centrally lived and felt, intensify that process.

All forms of life modify their contexts.