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lights on the path
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
In my own stories about spiritual experience, just as in the stories I received as a child, the truth, if there is truth, is seen “through a glass, darkly.”3 To me, this means that no matter how deeply or widely we study, there is always more to be seen, and no one sees all that there is to see. I do not believe there is or ever has been anyone who
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For most people, loneliness doesn't stem from a lack of friends. It comes from not feeling connected to the friends you already have, while "peering in" on their lives via social media. (You can read more about this in the ancient text Big Friendship.) This problem is not fixable if you expect community to just happen naturally . It is fixable if... See more
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the elders, guides, and friends who can witness your transformation without trying to "fix" it are true allies. if they know how to hold space for the darkness without rushing in to turn on all the lights they are WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD (and should be loved on as such). if you know who these people are in your life, now is a good time to pour... See more
Emilie Litzell • scorpio season begins with a battle between mars and pluto...
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more
Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.
The sphere of our possible intellectual knowledge is thus strictly conditioned by the limits of our own personality. On this basis, not the ends of the earth, but the external termini of our own sensory nerves, are the termini of our explorations: and to "know oneself" is really to know one's universe.