Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

- #Schopenhauer

Try to work regularly and methodically, and to relax all the parts of your body. Try to open yourself to a quality of #attention that can penetrate you. Understand that this is more important than anything in the world.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff- ian

You will have to embrace your death. You will have to bear everything to realise everything. A perfect divine economy."

- #JamesThornton

You will need to give up all your views about yourself again and again, each time they crystallise into a pattern. You will have to experience and release all the pain in your life.

#JAMESTHORNTON ON WHAT A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE

"If you ask for grace to realise who you are, ask also for the courage you will need to do so. To realise who you are, you will have to walk through all the shadows in your inner landscape. It is not easy.

‪The key is found purely and simply in making oneself aware of the ‘form of one’s own I,’ of one’s own skin, I mean, sunk though one may be in sleep. ‬

‪- #GustavMeyrink, ‘Golem’‬

Protect yourself from your own thoughts!

- #Rumi

Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

- #Rilke

From the time that earth first received its atmosphere, the music of wind and waves was there, a thousand million years before life had ears to hear it.”

- #JGBennett, 'The Dramatic Universe'

"Music in nature does not differ, in any essential way, from music in art. The thrush and the nightingale, the bull, the stallion and the lion are all artists re-creating in sound the cosmic affirmation which brought them into existence.

- #JGBennett, 'The Dramatic Universe'

The new spiritual attitude can take root only through an insightful process of intensive awareness.

- #JeanGebser, 'Ever Present Origin'

#Samsara is mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections.
#Nirvana is mind turned inwardly, recognizing its nature.

- #TulkuUrgyenRinpoche

Sauron? Im sorry what?

Yes

Does this qualify as agnostic.. or atheist?

An individual's shadow is invariably bound up with the collective shadow of his group, and as he digests his own evil, a fragment of the collective evil is invariably co-digested at the same time. - Erich Neumann, 'Depth Psychology and the New Ethics'

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Whoever is able to bring to effectiveness and reality, the wholeness of origin and the present, to make it concrete (as opposed to it remaining abstract), he overcomes beginning and end and the mere current time”.

- #JeanGebser, ‘The Ever Present Origin’

#JEANGEBSER ON THE NATURE AND USES OF ORIGIN

“Origin is ever present. It is not a beginning, since all beginning is bound to time, and the present is not the mere ‘now’, today, or the moment. It is not a time division, rather an achievement of wholeness, and this always original.

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Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch.
From it then came a stone monkey.
The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"

#IYKYK

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Time & the pure essences of Heaven & the moisture of Earth, the powers of the sun & the moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation.
And it became magically fertile.
That first egg was named "Thought".
Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the world."

My earliest sutra and genuine catechism - IRREPRESSIBLE!

"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned.
Heaven sought order.
But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

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From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

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The world is incapable of judging right and wrong but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

- #Zhuangzi

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There is in my body
an ocean formed of His glory,
all the creation, the galaxies, the universes,
are lost in it.

- #Rumi

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

- #JosephSchumpeter

One of the best kept secrets in our technically oriented culture is that simply speaking truth heals.

- #RachelNaomiRemen

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

- #Proverbs 28:6

In times of crisis, meaning is strength.

- #RachelNaomiRemen