The world is like a mirage that seems like water.
It is a phantom, an apparition seen in a dream.
In the ocean of existence, look into my eyes,
Which make the water of life appear like a bubble.
- #ShahNimatullahWali
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes and designs is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.
-- David Byrne
๐งตSpotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one!
(Oh no!)
Does she want this one...
This one?
THESE ONES?
THOSE ones?!
With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)
#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.
Also, the package says "12 = 72." On what planet? Are they saying each roll is as large as 6 regular rolls? Who has a holder that size that in their bathroom? smh...
Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this yearโs Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem โNight Canoe on Lake Sandovalโ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
#keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA
Or perhaps "Goo goo g'joob."
This withered panache
I bring to the world
image of women dancing under moon text: pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors. so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do the way birds sing and bees make hives.'
Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, reads: โJung challenges us to consider that within each of us is a center that is wiser than our knowledge, deeper than our learning, older than our chronology, and more durable than our calcified convictions. From time to time, life humbles us, calls us to account, leads us back to the drawing board, and asks us to start over. Isnโt it nice to think there might also be some resources available there to help us when we think we are bereft, when we have exhausted our conscious tools, when we have lost our way? โIn writing about the aims of psychotherapy in 1929, Jung observed that the therapeutic project is less about โcure,โ for life is not a disease, and more about an ongoing experiment to be lived through. So, the common work, he asserts, โis less a question of treatment than of developing the creative possibilities latent within the patient.โ
โJung challenges us to consider that within each of us is a center that is wiser than our knowledge, deeper than our learning, older than our chronology, and more durable than our calcified convictions. From time to time, life humbles us, calls us to account ...โ
~ James Hollis.
โ๐โ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐? ๐โ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ค๐๐ฆ.โ
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searching for spiritual truth is fun isn't it
no wonder people often lose their minds in the process
The whole world is you, yet you keep thinking there is something else.
- #XuefengYicun
What the public criticises in you, cultivate. It is you.
- #JeanCocteau
My soul and yours are the same,
You appear in me, I in you,
We hide in each other.
- #Rumi
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!"
โMacbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
Wow, this experience
all from the same Now
"If we are uneducated, we shall not know how very old are all new ideas." ~ G.K. Chesterton
Astonished to learn that โSilence of the Godsโ sold nearly 3k copies in the second half of 2025. These are numbers I'm not used to seeing ๐ฎ
@dapowell.bsky.social - Happy Birthday Remembering the great Bob Kaufman ( 1925-1986) on the Allen Ginsberg Project allenginsberg.org/2019/09/w-s-...
Pretty sure the title was "Kitchen Chemistry and Bathtub Dope." Man, do I miss the '70s!
I remember the Loompanics Unlimited catalog! As a teen in the '70s a copy of that catalog made one feel like a super-ninja. There was no clandestine adventure you couldn't master with one of their titles. I remember trying (and failing) to make LSD from rose hips with one of those books. Good times!
A 400 Word Time Travel Science Fiction #Flashfiction Love Story!
jackprestonking.com/f/time-for-l...
"I would warn you against believing only what can be proved by your mind. For we all know much more than we think. We know when the soul is insulted, as Whitman said." -- Dorothy Thompson
Witness
by W.S. Merwin
I want to tell what the forests
were like
I will have to speak
in a forgotten language
*
I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
I did not know this. Thanks for teaching me something new today!
