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monk is hibernating will return soon

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"We are bonded with the ancestors as life to death, light to shadow. The choice is not whether or not to be in relationship with them but whether or not those relationships will be conscious and reciprocal" —Daniel Foor, "Ancestral Medicine"

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fool on a cliffs edge elixir of memory fuels flight into void

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Reading them and writing them.

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🟤 sign that petition ⚪ pressure leadership 🟠 block the danger + his followers 🔵 call on archangel michael ⚫ use every single tool to banish the evil in our midst

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the archangel Michael prayer started out as an exorcism a protection against attacks from hell use it motherofmercychapter.com/Prayers/LeoX...

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petition to St. Michael

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Francis of Assisi saw every living creature as a mirror of divinity Ask yourself: How can I be of service to others today?

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THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL BE CHALLENGING: "Be the reason why the lights flicker when you enter a room." It's time for our collective power to manifest in a way that protects our children and our environment. Here's just one example :-)}

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BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

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A flower garden can be a monastery

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your world is speaking to you listen

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unseen forces in a bush

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Chelidonia was a recluse who made her home in a cave in Subiaco, Italy. Little is known about the life of this Benedictine, who lived until 1152

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go your own way

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Nuns at Lourdes David Moore, c. 1959

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life goes on -- and we never got used to living without you Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991, before AIDS was treatable his four octaves echo with operatic glamor into eternity

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This is a hell mouth I embroidered and gave as a birthday gift to a very dear friend in May of 2020. It is based on an imagine from Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin - MS M 945 fol-168v, detail held at The Morgan in NYC.

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Olga of Kyiv aka That Bitch when the people who murdered her husband wanted her to marry their leader, she said ‘sounds great’ then buried them alive

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a tree can be a monastery

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clare of assisi was the first woman to write a monk's handbook known, that is we work under cover of tree and gloom

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Kodo Roshi was from my temple. What a true pioneer she was, both in American Buddhism, and gender equality! 🙏

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Santa Muerte by Roxanna Bikadoroff

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a monastery can be a forest in fog

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Moses the Black, 330–405 AD has a hell of a story. For years he led an infamous 75-man band of robbers. But once, when he was running from the cops, monks in Wadi El Natrun sheltered him. Their peace moved him; he converted The integrity and thoughtfulness of his struggles with monk life inspire us

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Patron saint of the disabled, Giles lived 600s to early 700s A hermit in a forest along the Rhône River, his best friend was a red deer A king hunting his deer friend shot Giles with an arrow instead of her, thus his disability

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Saint Francis of Assisi was a prisoner of war for a year. He likely contracted malaria and TB in the prison camp. We know him as a friend to animals — but Francis also suffered from PTSD. He gets the pain and anguish of trauma disorders

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yes never forget to savour the berry to taste the waters of the lake the clouds to touch eternity within the tea (missing dear thich nhat hahn)

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She’s got a mortar and pestle at her neck and a tool for time or alchemy in one hand. Those stairs nod to the chthonic; her hair holds space for the celestial. This glowing, resonant corridor walker lives in La llamada (The Call) by Remedios Varo, 1961

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IF I DIE OF AIDS — FORGET BURIAL — JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA David Wojnarowicz in 1988 David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992

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“Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets — say the names of paths out loud and they become a poem or rite” —The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane

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A year before his Oct. 7 death, star man Edgar Allan Poe put out "Eureka," a prophetic 40K-word take on the universe Astronomer Alberto Cappi: “It's surprising Poe arrived at his dynamically evolving universe because there was no observational or theoretical evidence suggesting such a possibility"

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Austin Osman Spare, artist and animal lover, left a legacy around sigils, which have snowballed in popularity among occultists since his death in 1956

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A severed head floats in what could be a box. The left side of the frame could be a frame. It forms an L. So much L. Woman, man — brain cast in flesh and skull. It ponders an anchor, or maybe the anchor is about to ponder the head. This cannot go on

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what parts of you cannot be broken? feed and hone your unbreakable pieces your unbreakable pieces keep you whole

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Free Palestine. www.patreon.com/soniasulaiman

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a mossy rock can be a monastery

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we are always saying this

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today is Michaelmas, the feast of Archangel Michael. Pope Leo wrote the Saint Michael prayer in 1884 after having a vision — legions of demons attacking earth, Michael driving them back. In its original form, this prayer is an exorcism

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Michaelmas, Sept 29, which marks the autumn equinox, is the feast of Archangel Michael, who embodies our lifelong wrestling match with progress and setbacks, soul and ego. Michael battled a dragon and so must we — isolation, trauma, poverty, the lead boot of white supremacy Light and dark are tied

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Happy Joan Jett's Birthday to all who celebrate! 🎂❤️👑🎸

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Songwriter, poet, novelist, and Zen monk Leonard Cohen was born on this day in 1934. He was given the Zen name "Jikan," which his teacher translated as "the silence between two thoughts." [photo by Angelica Sarkisyan]

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solitude is a beautiful womb!!!

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