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Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without comm

We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the- world into a being-at-home. They tur

"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the de

The most effective strategies are the ones that consistently signal safety to the nervous system. Three stand out repeatedly. First, regular sleep and

Time spent in nature, meaningful social connection, laughter, physical touch, prayer, meditation, deep breathing, restorative movement, and genuine pe

People who cope best with stress usually have these four things in place for their nervous system (often without even realising.)They move. Not just

It is not winter that defeats you. It is your insistence on summer. - Epictetus

“Listening is a form of accepting” - Stella Terrill Mann

Being received can be the most fragile gate, because it’s the one you cannot fully control. Does the listener have the patience, the emotional room, t

Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection. Listening to a conversation or a story, we don’t so much respond as join in — become part of the acti

This is a field in which one is challenged to act; it is your actions alone that define you.

Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline,

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if

In ancient Greek, the word "chaos" (Χάος) didn’t have today’s connotations of disorder and confusion. Depending on who you asked, Chaos was:A void (or

These moments feel uncomfortable initially, but something interesting happens: your body starts telling you before your brain does that peace exists w

new word request: nihilism that results from a lifetime of resisting nihilism & failing

What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunders

I’ve been asked many times to either select or to write (the greatest honor) a poem to read at a wedding or a funeral. My friends request these poems

Over the course of four semesters, the question at the heart of my pedagogy changed. Instead of asking students “What does the olive mean?” I learned

The word ‘however’ is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page an

Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows anything.

The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less.

@erinmartina @emokendallroy When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on

goals are things we invent to fill the hole left behind by loyalties, duties, obligations, oaths, pacts, vows, sacred treaties with the dragon clan, c

witchcraft is how you learn to manipulate energy through connection with nature. they want you to believe it’s demonic because you cannot be controlle

you can buy a session but i'm telling you rn: just admit what you really want and then suffer for it sustainably and with erotic passion. fall in love

@TheStalwart and the rest of my Claude Code for Absolute Dummies starter guide: https://t.co/OsinPgLyjV

The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That

i think a lot of the current creator paradigm is sort of spiritually dead, including a lot of my writing over the years too what i mean is that there

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next se

To me, the best writing should explore something uncomfortable, it should subvert an idea that other people are already comfortable believing.

We've all heard the advice: write what you know but I dare you to write what you wish you DIDN'T know. Your weird insecurities, your loneliness, the f

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

“Guru favor” is to lose yourself in the teacher. This isn’t the way. You don’t lose yourself. You shine a light into ancient darkness, through your te

I think we do well to remember that the greatest teachers of our history are people who moved against the stream, sometimes at huge personal cost.

If we imagine somehow that our suffering will dissolve if we only do such and such, or if we are crushed by the weight of it, then we don’t have the e

We may find that we’re living in reaction to the suffering that we’re unwilling to see and think about. So the idea that suffering is some sort of mis

Evolution doesn’t care about any one of us: superhero or not. It doesn’t even care about our species as a whole. The only thing that matters is the co

natural selection as “the survival and improvement of the species through the demise of the individual” the marginalian