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shimmeringfire.bsky.social
you must rise above the gloomy clouds covering the mountaintop otherwise, how will you ever see the brightness? Ch'an Daoist || godless mysticism
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Remembering when my friend came back from a Gurdjieffian retreat in Italy having slaughtered a pig

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Learning that gnosticism is all the rage, thinking back to a 20 year old me discovering Colin Wilson and starting to get into all this Weird Shit

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Id delete that whole thread if that wasn't just more avoidance

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That's a tortured way to say: don't fuck yourself up by trying to fix everything, stop despairing that you can't fix everything; just show up with an open heart and be willing to love what is, as it is, while it's breaking your heart.

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Yesterday @lalonde.bsky.social posted something that got me thinking about how in an era of cascading crises and political overwhelm, it's incredibly tempting to retreat into sophisticated forms of disengagement—whether through nihilistic detachment or spiritual bypassing

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Spring and All convinced me the Tractatus is a poem

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Went to a screening of my kids short film. He acted as solely as the editor, and they didn't use his edit or warn before hand. He's absolutely heartbroken.

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I take sulfasalazine three times a day and a biologic once every two weeks. Without at least one of them, I'm in extreme pain, can't walk, or use my hands. I absolutely love medication.

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Abandon all moral frameworks, cultivate attention, liberate direct moral response

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