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The task of liberated people is not to scold the world and preach to it, but to delight it back to its senses.

- Alan Watts
Personally I think we need art more than ever right now. We need beauty and silliness and community more than ever.

Expecting people not to have lives outside the struggle is some purity culture bullshit and I'm not here for it.
March 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirit of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

- Black Elk (from “Black Elk Speaks” by John G. Neihardt)

#spirituality
March 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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laughter itself is funny, and happiness is its own reason.
February 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Is it more helpful to think "I am That" or to think "'That' is what is 'I am'" .. clumsy words but for me closer to the sense of it.
January 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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“I don’t know…”
holds the same peace, joy and freedom as answers to a thousand questions.

Rest there.

#advaita #nonduality #spirituality #awakening
January 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I kept seeing scorpions, one real, then images of them. I asked a friend what scorpions might signify and in her reply were the words "Use the sting of your own self love"
December 9, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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whatever is thought is nothing but perspective. what moon wine pairs with moon cheese?
December 4, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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"The Luminous Brahman dwells in the cave of the heart and is known to move there. It is the great support of all; for in It is centered everything that moves, breathes, and blinks." ~ Manduka Upanishad
December 1, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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“Everything other than the Essence of the Real is intervening imagination and vanishing shadow”

Ibn Arabi
November 27, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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just life living itself.
November 24, 2024 at 6:13 AM