Today it is anti-wisdom. For a change in the channel about presence and awareness, what you are about to read sounds strange. But these lines inspired an entire generation - and, frankly, in some way they live on in us. A pale young man with a burning gaze,

Today it is anti-wisdom. For a change in the channel about presence and awareness, what you are about to read sounds strange. But these lines inspired an entire generation - and, frankly, in some way they live on in us. A pale young man with a burning gaze,

Now I give you three covenants:

First accept: don't live in the present,

Only the future belongs to the poet. Remember the second: do not identify with anyone,

Love yourself endlessly.

Keep the third: worship of art,

Only him, without a thought, without a purpose, a pale young man with a confused look!

If you accept my three covenants,

In silence I will fall like a defeated warrior,

Knowing that I will leave the poet in the world. July 15, 1896 to the young poet

Valery Bryusov read it again. slowly. "Don't live in the present."

"Don't identify with anyone."

"Love yourself endlessly." This is the manifesto of a man who built himself from the future, from art, from his own greatness. And he paid for it - in solitude, which he himself registered. Bryusov wrote for a superhuman poet. Tull writes to a man who is tired of being Superman. But here is the question that haunts us: are we not still living according to these three covenants? Aren't we dreaming of the future instead of being here? Aren't we confusing compassion with weakness? Aren't we worshiping - if not art, then productivity, success, image - mindlessly and aimlessly? Bryusov honestly described the disease. Tull offers a remedy. what do you choose To start the day with wisdom and beauty (today without beauty and without wisdom) a joint project of the channels Dare to be and Eckhart Toll