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

With due respect to Rilke for the second to last line, I wrote this after going for a walk in the forest whilst in the throes of despair.

I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)

The tradition of generosity is lost in cultures where everything has a price.

The sharpness of life is sometimes more apparent in the shadows.

“To call 10 million other species The Environment as if it’s a piece of space we walk into, is the most ignorant word. It’s like walking into a room full of people and only acknowledging the chairs” From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM

when you arrive, let yourself in and leave your skin at the door because in this house we don’t hide who we truly are - John Lupin

Absolutely wild that in 1999 we were dreading Y2K and now wiping out the world’s computing systems would feel like finally exhaling

There is a vast silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself. And the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven. - Meister Eckhart

Find someone who looks at you the way River looks at me when I have snacks. 😭😭

In honor of #caturday… my four legged loves.

“A revolution against this system can only materialise once our actual bodies begin to process the psychosomatic trauma of living in this civilisation” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

If your spirituality doesn’t involve breaking the chains of injustice, I want more for you. The story is liberation. - Cole Arthur Riley

Truth is expansive enough to hold both absolute reality and relative reality. With grace, we can comfortably inhabit both. Some call this awakening.

65 and sunny is my love language.

W. S. Merwin

The miracle of life is present in the flower, and in the reluctant seed that never blossoms. #spirituality

I am listening now with all of my senses, as if the whole universe might exist just to teach me more about love. - Adrienne Maree Brown

Earth is my ashram.

As often as a child views the sunset My sky you’ve graced as much. Is it Wisdom, Or rather The flight from youth, That makes one chase them such.

A gentle reminder: Make peace with the fact that your long-term plans are now void, and you will yet learn to behold eternity in an hour by and by. #collapse

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. - Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

There is beauty among the ashes. An ember that glows.