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Dr. David Pecotić

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Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #synchronicity, #poetry, #therapy ♋ #mystic, #poet, #existential #counsellor (according to some) "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death." Book a session: https://linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pecotic

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · Jul 22

I have space for new clients who wish to explore #counselling #therapy that is person-centred and geared toward existential and spiritual issues and aspects of life. Sessions are online unless you're a local. If this sounds like you, either DM me or contact me via the link: linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pec...

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Prince of Serendipity, daimon-wrangler & existential counsellor– at your service

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now and now is much to busy being a little more than everything to seem anything, catastrophic included."

- #eecummings

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

you and I are not snobs. We can never be born enough. We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing: which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

Mostpeople fancy a guaranteed birthproof safetysuit of nondestructible selflessness. If mostpeople were to be born twice they’d improbably call it dying–

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

The cultured aristocrat yanked out of his hyperexclusively ultravoluptuous superpalazzo, and dumped into an incredibly vulgar detentioncamp swarming with every conceivable species of undesirable organism.

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to mostpeople? Catastrophe unmitigated. Socialrevolution.

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

#EECUMMINGS ON MOSTPEOPLE

"The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople– it’s no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

It’s an interesting subject, to speculate that with attention, whole new worlds reveal themselves. The Chinese and Japanese artists have understood for a long time the importance of being ‘still,’ of gathering their energies for a few moments before beginning."

- #WilliamSegal

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

#WILLIAMSEGAL ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING STILL

“With sustained attention, one grasps relationships which usually are overlooked. So how to nurture an attention which penetrates into the heart of things?

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

In manifesting in life we believe that we are creating, but real creation takes place through drawing in, through absorption. The role of our Presence is in connecting the two worlds."

- #JeannedeSalzmann

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

We are also inhabited by two simultaneous but opposite movements–one toward the outside, the other toward the inside. In our organism, certain cells multiply in order to create and maintain the body. Others, germinating, contract and concentrate, saving energy for later creation.

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

#JEANNEDESALZMANN ON OUR TWO WORLDS

"We live in two worlds. The reaction of our functions to impressions is our contact with the world below. Our perception of the fine energy in us represents the contact with the world above.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 6h

17th century Dutch artist Adriaën Coorte achieves a Japanese-like simplicity and restraint in this still life with three medlar fruits on a deeply-shadowed ledge, with a butterfly hovering above, emerging out of the darkness (1695, private collection)

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11h

Because man was created for the purpose of producing a soul; and a soul may be defined as a being capable of producing Objective Reason."

- #AROrage, quoted by #CSNott in 'Teachings of #Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal'

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11h

The psychological human being is a human being with a passion for understanding. The prime need is the presence of that active passion for understanding. Why?

- #AROrage, quoted by #CSNott in 'Teachings of #Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal'

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11h

For those who work on attention and use it in the struggle with associations, who do not forget to ‘remember themselves’ - for those people attention begins to be not only the centre of life, but also the factor that lengthens it."

- Olga and #ThomasdeHartmann, 'Our Life With Mr #Gurdjieff'

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11h

"Mr Gurdjieff frequently said that ‘conscious labour’ and ‘intentional suffering’, by reducing this unconscious flow of associations, could prolong life.

- Thomas and #OlgadeHartmann, 'Our Life With Mr #Gurdjieff'

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

- #JackKornfield

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

Next to awareness, the most important thing is time.

- #Gurdjieff

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

Up to now, you have had contact with yourself only when you were alone, quiet, now you must learn with others. When you are with a person, remain in your own current, your interior current."

- #Gurdjieff

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

GURDJIEFF ON LIVING IN TWO CURRENTS

"You must now learn to live in two currents. There is the habitual current which is ordinary life in which you live, and then in you must exist the other current, the second current, which is your interior life.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

- #Wittgenstein

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 13h

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

- #JaimeGildeBiedma

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 14h

I would rather be a meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live,
not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in
trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

- #JackLondon

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing.

- #LinYutang