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The meditator will then understand that our senses—seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and thinking—are only survival systems. They are not an amusement park. Everybody thinks their senses are an amusement park, and if they don’t get the right kind of amusement from them they get irate. But the senses are only our survival systems. And su... See more
Wes Nisker • Biting Into The Mango: Doing Jhana Practice With Ayya Khema - Inquiring Mind
romantic relationships are one of the toughest things to figure out as a human:
- u get very few of them to "practice" with. most people will not have more than 4 serious relationships before marriage.
- there's massive qualitative differences at later levels of time spent and greater investment. having been in five 6-month relationships will tel... See more
But also, that if you want to live again, you really have to let yourself die.
Leandra Medine Cohen • Three years of cereal
Now, there is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
— G.K. Chesterton
— G.K. Chesterton
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
The more painful it is, the more the beauty.
I asked George for advice
“This beauty got hands.”
—Isabelle, Jan 16, 2025
(I reminded her about this post, about these words she wrote herself. The context: she’s scared about committing to a relationship with me if I won’t take her seriously enough to want to marry her.)
“There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.”
A quote from Eat, Pray, Love
In celebrations, I laugh with those laughing
And in sadness, I cry with those grieving
The divine secrets are not separate from my cries
But only those who are cooked in the fire of love will hear them
These secrets are for the heart, not for eyes or ears
It is fire, not wind that makes me sing!
If you don’t have this fire,
you might as well be dead
Oh, ho... See more
And in sadness, I cry with those grieving
The divine secrets are not separate from my cries
But only those who are cooked in the fire of love will hear them
These secrets are for the heart, not for eyes or ears
It is fire, not wind that makes me sing!
If you don’t have this fire,
you might as well be dead
Oh, ho... See more
Rumi Poem: The Song of the Reed - Rumi With A View
“If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.”
-James Finley, Intimacy: The Divine Ambush
-James Finley, Intimacy: The Divine Ambush