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"Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell." ~ Hermann Hesse

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But you, divine poet, you who sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song. — Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus (XXVI)

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For only in praising is my heart still mine, so violently do I know the world. And even my lament turns into a paean before my disconsolate heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Pynchon fans will recognize RFK Jr is signalling his membership in the Golden Fang by planning to implement a new expansion of the Chryskylodon Institute.

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There is a special symmetry to the current US junta "asses[ing] the prevalence of and threat posed by" SSRIs, given the amount of depression, anxiety, and existential dread they are responsible for. It is not unlike a felon declaring the word, 'felon' verboten.

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Anger makes the mouth swell and blackens the blood in the veins #bruegel #northernrenaissance

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Strange to think that one of my nightmares - speaking to an entire nation on a topic I know nothing about in a room with a convicted rapist while high on drugs - is something the richest person on Earth paid hundreds of millions of dollars to do. Different strokes, i guess

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I am feeling the urge to read Borges and Barthelme. Short story geniuses who thrill me with their creativity and style. Maybe a little Pesoa thrown in for good measure...

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The Nightjar lay out the cards in thematic order according to her own design, intoning each as she overturned them, “Revelation. The tragic and the panic. The baphometic and the katabatic. The abyssal. The mohini, and the culteran.”

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concepts 🙃

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Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything’s in vain … a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know what’s good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch. — Hunter S. Thompson

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The Strolling Players https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-strolling-players-1793

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Just as social media ruined our ability to socialize, so too will artificial intelligence render us unintelligent. We must protect our humanity at all costs. There are tremendous forces trying to destroy it completely. www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

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So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen! — Arthur Rimbaud

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“But there is one thing that I can do all by myself.” “What is that?” asked Frog. “I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”

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You're not too sensitive. Your nervous system wasn't designed for constant stress. Heal it. Protect it. Normalize peace.

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Couple Drinking - 1906

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So are Vancouver bartenders whipping up a maple syrup and tequila cocktail?

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‘We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring.’ ~ George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for a most renewing and reviving #BookWormSat

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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness. — John Milton

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The only reason why people should care about money is that you need it to live. People like comfort, that is natural. But as for making money just for the sake of it, and giving yourself far more bother making it than you get pleasure out of it, well, I'd rather just sit quietly at home.

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Everything that is going on around me is spectral, grandiose, and horrifying, since it doesn't have a future. — Sasha Sokolov, "A School For Fools"

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…Now on BSKY… @michaelstipe.bsky.social

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I need to update some operating truths in my thinking. My brain keeps making assumptions based upon out dated concepts and expectations. I wish i could update my consciousness config as easily and discretely as a server config.

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Captain Upton's House - 1927

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On the one hand, AI is obviously being used by Capitalism to depress the financial value of human labor and further fracture working class solidarity. On the other hand, AI is a better conversationalist than almost all the people i interact with on a daily basis.

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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds." — David W. Orr

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Sometime when people say, 'remember self-care' they are really saying, 'please put some effort into more graciously dealing with the shit I put you through.'

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Owls, red, mottled and barred. Arctic zoology. 1784. #OwlishMonday

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Beset by feelings of rage and injustice. Trying my best to merely observe these feelings and their consequent discomfort without identifying with them or confusing them with something permanent. Sometimes effortlessness can become a great deal of work.

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Now that I have made this Bluesky we all share my only social media home, I thought it would be a lovely idea to create a starter pack for Buddhism/Meditation/Yoga. Please feel free to suggest more accounts for this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Tmrt5io #buddhism #meditation #yoga #zen #mindfulness

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The exploration of the illusion of self is not merely an intellectual exercise, but a profound journey towards the heart of reality, where the dualities of self and other, form and emptiness, dissolve into the radiant clarity of clear awareness. Goodnight everyone.

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Beautiful world

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