You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind. - African Proverb

my mother was my first country. the first place i ever lived. - lands Nayyirah Waheed

Jesus when he saw how they painted his portrait:

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. - Nikos Kazantzakis

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. - Nietzsche

He told the legislators that the day would come when the courts of justice and prisons of the white men would be powerless to protect society from the criminals that the white man’s civilization fostered and developed. - Sauk leader and warrior Black Hawk, as accounted in “The Making of Illinois”

Life became a sure approach to God, Existence a divine experiment; The world a conception and a birth, Of Spirit in Matter, into living forms. Nature bore the Immortal in her womb, That she might climb through him to eternal life. - Savitri by Sri Aurobindo

A gentle reminder: What illuminates always casts a shadow. #collapse

[S]ometimes it is the asking of the question that opens doors, rather than the determined search for an unam­biguous answer.~Liz Greene

A gentle reminder: In the final instance, whatever is, is right. #collapse

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that claim a God, and the only living things that behave like they haven't got one. - Hunter S. Thompson

I don’t always bite off more than I can chew. But when I do, it is in spectacular fashion.

Everything appears in daylight, except the daylight itself. - Nisargadatta Maharaj #nonduality #advaita

"Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there." (Eckhart Tolle) #collapse

But why #caturday

Northeast of Uptown #Charlotte in Plaza neighborhood #tornadowarning. We are safely relocated to an interior closet

When you live to the rhythm of poetry, you become it.

Be like the river: Liberated of its past Unconcerned about the future Authentic in its present decisions Infinitely flexible and spontaneous Energetic by nature Only truly as it is in this very moment Already free Be like the river. Flow.

March is Women’s History Month. Just remember: women were women in January, and will continue to be women from April to December. Content that doesn’t change you doesn’t celebrate women, it patronizes them. #WomensHistoryMonth substack.com/home/post/p-...

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense. - Franz Kafka

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.” — Ray Bradbury

The winds of truth touch my face, and bring me home to myself. #nonduality #siddhayoga

May all beings be happy and free 🪷 The venerable monks walked right through our neighborhood in Charlotte. Kiddos handed out flowers; I cried. What a beautiful demonstration. With love and gratitude for their journey. #WalkForPeace #monks

What is the difference between looking backward and looking forward. They are the same. You have made yourself a prisoner of time.

“Step out of line and the machine that was built to protect “people like you” turns and eats you the second you choose the wrong side.”

“Step out of line and the machine that was built to protect “people like you” turns and eats you the second you choose the wrong side.”

Breathe. Let that stale air go, it’s suffocating you.

The moment was all; the moment was enough. Virginia Woolf

Let there be a space in your togetherness - Kahlil Gibran

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement.“ (T.S. Eliot) 🎨 Selcha Uni

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The moment you realize you’re observing a sacrament to honor a memory is the moment you have to admit: It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays. Die Hard is a Christmas Movie ://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie

The natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only minute and a half. We need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. We lock into painful emotional states [through] our own endless stream of inner dialogue.~Tara Brach

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: The world is one family. - Maha Upanishad

It’s raining outside, yet I’m waiting in line to have the car washed. A personal attack on my own sense-making.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. - Frederick Buechner

“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.” - Rohan Kapur www.facebook.com/share/p/1D3M...

Salvation is this present moment Seeking, an illusion #nonduality #advaita

When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. - Zambian proverb

Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. - Antonio Machado

Visionaries are those who dwell in the most fertile field of their consciousness and when they occasionally come out, they can see with utmost clarity. - Guthema Roba

For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns too. - Egyptian proverb

Spiritual narcissism sees self-love as the end goal. Spirituality to the ego-self is an object of attainment, much like fame, wealth, an expensive car and a sexy body. - Rabbi Alan Lurie

Stop weaving a net about yourself: burst like a lion from the cage. Melt yourself down in his search: venture your life and your soul in the path of sincerity; strive to pass from nothingness to being, and make yourself drunk with the wine of God. - Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth

Spiritual immaturity reflects as zero gravity: No grounding into Truth.

“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.” - Rohan Kapur www.facebook.com/share/p/1D3M...

I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me. -Kafka I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be. -Dostoevsky