TIGblogs - Zorica Vukovic

You can take your place in this world both by communicating to it how beautiful or how ugly it is. It is important just to speak up loud!

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The only successful marketing strategy is conquering market in human minds.

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Lost in love is like lost in life – anyone can find you, but even then you never know where you are nor what you are at when it happens.

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Love can be given and taken, exchanged on so many various ways that its value often varies, increases or decreases, creating occasionally times of emotional inflation and deflation.

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The magic of coincidence is that there is no coincidence! Only magic.

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Literature and Art can enrich our lives, but not more than we can enrich literature and the art by our own contribution, even if it would be just reading or observing the works of art.

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The world is re-gaining its power each time when a child is born. Be (s)he a new dictator or liberator, creator, leader or just another humble servant.

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Local knowledge is always far better than the global one. Only it trades for less. Maybe that’s why total dominance in the world will never be possible. Somehow, the labels of value and recognition are mistaken and thus working in conquering the world one is losing it, losing even one’s local rating as well.

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Wondering about life has never been a habit of any living creature after it gets mature. Why us, the humans, are the only ones that get more curious and amazed by life as our life approaches the end?

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Pondering life and the art – what could have more value for you?

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When all hopes and beliefs are lost, dead and gone, there’s still one more left.
A new chance.

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If you could have a chance to create a new world, a new life – what would you do? Try this - just wake up into a new DaY and begin in any moment of it!

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Meditation on the stone far away, hidden in the mountain or by the ocean shore can be useful. You can have a good sleep on it if it’s warm.

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Missing your childhood, dear persons or feeling homesick has its advantages – you realize that you can love strangers and recognize yourself and your memories in their eyes and in unknown, beautiful landscapes.

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Whenever I sat to write a novel the paper was lacking.

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Lie is the truth too much polished.

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Words are all we have.
(but it’s only the case in the dictionaries.)

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Too many words can ruin any friendship! All words after reaching the peak of understanding after necessary minimum are belonging to endless and useless disputes or flawless echoes of erosion of flattering or devotion.

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The road is too long to be traveled alone, yet there is no one who can endure it all along. Sometimes life, family, friendly teamwork and feeling of unity and belonging depends on a simple almost mathematical issues of time management or even – routine.

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Poetry is the most complicated way to communicate emotional or metaphysical truth that colors and shapes or music and dance have already expressed. But sometimes we just can not help torturing our mind and soul and exercising our brain and spirit not to sing, paint, sculpt or dance but to write and weep our hearts on the thorn instead.

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Talking about life – it has been given to us on short-medium-long term contract to use, but it isn’t always clear to us what should we give in return? I recon this because the majority of people is wandering around searching what more should they take, have, possess or at least experience.

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Talking about creativity – Writing on the journey or simply sitting and writing by the road has power to transform a talkative novelist into a sharp and luminous author of the quotes from the novels not yet (or ever) written.

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Whenever clouds darken the sun you can say
one point is won against spreading of skin cancer!

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There is a saying that Gipsies are crying in the sun knowing that rain will come, but they are laughing and dancing in the rain expecting it to end and skies to clear up again. It’s the old saying, but I have never seen them do so. Moreover, I am sure that anyone among them doing so would be considered either drunk or insane. So much for the practical use of proverbial wisdom.

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Wisdom is something that we can not buy in the malls, but we can always borrow it or even steal at the market of life among the other people or sometimes simply find it in the middle of nowhere in the open mine of nature and wilderness.

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Blue, ever-changing sky is protecting us of seeing the dark, black, yet glorious emptiness (or fulfillment) of the Universe the same way as the sound of human voice and the meaning of the words spoken are protecting us of getting the real messages from the people talking to us, or around us.

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Patriotism is a form of a social plant. Its roots are more or less deeply grown in the soil of History, enriched by fertilizing Tradition. It’s trunk or a stem is more or less successfully communicating between the Glorious Past, Proud Present and Bright Future. And it’s obvious manifestations are multiply varied, individually fragile and yet typical like the leaves and flowers in the full bloom. There are seasons when it blossoms and the other ones when it sleeps by deadly winter dream, but in any case the fruit and the seeds as well as the jam and juice of patriotism are produced, sweetened and consumed or strategically distributed, even sold widely, by political leaders of the nation.

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The advantage of all old civilizations is that they are too old to be alive, so they are perfected and thus perfect comparing to ours, still enduring one.

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The secret of old cultures is not in their understanding and achievements, no matter how unbelievable they might appear to us, but in their quests and questions not answered but somehow passed to our times.

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the long history of human struggle for better life, for building peaceful, loving and safe place under the sun can be only measured in timelines by as long and absolutely parallel history of human suffering, loss, pain, war and all kinds of humiliating and dehumanizing destruction.

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The initiation of a primitive tribe member is usually an important event in respect of the individual growth which is supported, cherished and monitored by the whole tribe in expectation of the success – promotion of a child into an adult, be it a warrior or a woman. The initiation of individuals in our society (besides mass social birth of generation after generation defined through their birthdates, classes, music, language and fashion as the sub-cultural artifacts) is usually a painful, lonely, often misguided or hidden and by all external views mainly disapproved, even unwanted process of individuation, including self-birth, self-creation and self-actualization.

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Ah, the unexpected in life! What more could we expect?

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When the task is given and formulated in frames of its requirements and resources it’s easier to accomplish it. The similar way those who have been told how much of their life is left are the ones who know what they are doing in their lives more precisely than the rest, so that proves that there is some joy in ignorance and unexpectedness for all! The question is: Who should be pitied and who is to be estimated fortunate? Those knowledgeable or the ignorant ones?

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Good thing about the unexpected is that your intuition always knows but enjoys not telling you until you happen to discover the rest of unexpectedness – it’s expected outcome.

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Dreams are the way to find reality.
To find it more beautiful, more scary or more real.

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Sitting on the top of the mountain the only way of going either back or forward, no matter which path you choose is the same – descending! Except if you fly.

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Flying is one of the most powerful symbols for humans although we do not fly at all and there’s no track of earlier loss of wings in our anatomy. However, in the anatomy of our minds our brain still believes that even dying is better when flying. Like both flying and dying are opposites of the Life, somehow, but from two different sides.

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Birds have the most perfect way of life that we, humans, for ages dream to achieve as the ideal. Birds can live in high populated communities without need of serving their infrastructure most of their time, like we do. They live their full lives, managing to organize themselves and all their actions freely, without phones, energy pollution, traffic lights, providing all necessary needs, hunting fish together and easily finding their nests and family among millions of other birds on the shore.

The courting is what all human females would embrace – from changing feathers, lovely dancing & romancing, never bullfighting but building their nests of beauty and craft for her eyes to inspect and agree, to often enviable habit of couples to stay together for life raising the generations of children provided by equal nourishing and care of both parents until they teach them how to fly.

Not only that we both envy and favor birds for their flying skills, their love for family and life. The easiness and the precision of their instinctively guided migrations is absolutely killing all our tourist resort dreams! Whenever we may even think to get away – they are already there, for centuries and generations enjoying with the same ease the beauties of nature and changes of the season without tourist guides and hotel fees.

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The best thing about money is that you can buy almost anything with it but at the same time nothing that you really feeds your deepest needs, so you must live, look for, learn and create and search further to find it.

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The worst thing about money is that you may find one day that in all the big game and noise of trade around you, you have been bought, sold and recycled even more than once, and still you haven’t been informed for which value. Besides, the true values are so hard to define using money that only big enthusiasts of trade still try to do it.

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Money is worthless. It’s the process of buying and selling and the excitement of price and conditions negotiation that make the illusion of value that could be quantitatively expressed so tangible, at least for the moment of contracting.

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Marketing is a multidisciplinary and multilayered activity but at least we can define it as a twofold process of trying to sell what you surely know that people would need for the value that would at the same time make them choose between your offer and the other need that should be covered from some other side. The sweet joy of competition not only inside one type of products and branch of services, but inside human brain that is struggling to set and keep up with its priorities is the living force and blood of marketing. Something that is unique and valuable and truly needed is not needed to be offered like that and since – not marketable at all. It becomes the issue of the higher laws of the Trade. Unfortunately, we are witnessing the epoch where marketing becomes mere political weapon in trading priorities like freedom, individual opinion and free will for the value of civil rights, public judgment and conformist attitude.

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Talking about sales - Van Gogh is still the best salesman in this century! Being invisible in his new life, not reincarnated in person, he is performing his selling skills settled firmly by each of his works by simply adding to them his authorship value as we speak. He is selling for better and better price no matter who is tge owner, who is buying or receiving the money, and it seems that this time he just likes it to be this way. Like he has to prove that his passion shown on his canvases during his life as a painter, can be expressed in figures in his new life of the salesman. Still artistic in his sales he proves again and again who is the best.

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Poor spirit – would it be a grammatical form of the “spirit of the poor ones”? In that case what would it mean? It’s obvious, yet hidden from many because of the lack of personal experience of living the life of the poor, since many of us live in material abundance we can not easily get read of. Who knows the spirit of the poor except God and those who are poor? Besides, if everything material is taken from you and you still, that “something” that no one can take away from you, the quality of being human, no matter what, in any form of the humanity that can still hold the spirit in yourself – you’ve got everything you need. But we are witnessing the cases of those who have lost just that what makes us humans.

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There is the example of the kings and noblemen of Medieval Serbian dynasty Nemanic’s (meaning “those who don’t possess”) who were introducing the habit of leaving their throne and going to the monk’s life in the monastery which was known both for men and women spending there the end of their lives serving and praising God. Medieval monasteries were the source of spirit of Christianity, culture and education of that time and many noble men and ladies in their most productive years of the governing had their spiritual advisers in some of the monks or pilgrims who were preparing them how to practice good, merciful and best judged leadership in ruling their lands and when to leave all of their material possessions to those who don’t have and the church and retreat to monasteries in the older age.

Written on the rock in Arizona,
One sunny November DaY