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Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. Were they abandoned by God?
No. They were being forged and reformed. Strength, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, does not emerge from nothingness. It is grown by resistance, and the repetition in trying to overcome it. It is birthed in the juxtaposition of one’s will against one’s reality, in the friction between being and becoming.
The descent into the underworld is not a detour, it is an essential part of the process. It is the burning away of the overgrowth and the debris; the unmasking and falling away of the untrue, the excess, the parts of you that are unworthy of the journey. It is the germination phase of the seed planted within you - cold, dark, and lonely, but essential, nevertheless.
The stress, depression, and anxiety are inflicted upon us involuntarily. We don’t want to feel like shit, we don’t want to feel hopeless - but we do. This is an exercise in mental resilience for the warrior. The ordinary person either numbs themselves, dissociates, or succumbs to the emotion and identifies with it. The warrior recognizes this as a challenge to overcome and an opportunity to grow. Life puts us through these tests because we do not - we avoid “negativity” like the plague. But if you're a warrior out on the battlefield, then negativity, stress, and anxiety are your environment. If you do not know how to navigate that terrain, you’re bound to lose - or get lost.
“Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone.”
― Alan Watts
7 years ago: An ode to springtime...
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Never being bored = never using your imagination
Never using it = losing it
Allow yourself to be bored. More importantly, allow your kids to be bored.
This is how to train the muscle of coming up with something from nothing.
Hope y'all are having a great weekend! 🌞
Here's some organic house to chill, dance, or do yoga to:
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Another Bitcoin Wall Calendar out in the wild 🤠
A year ago at The Barn in Taipa, New Zealand, where I had the awesome opportunity to introduce some Estonian rap to the local crowd 🤠
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"In another time, another culture, he may have been a seer, a shaman priest. In our world, he's a shoe salesman and lives among the shadows."
― Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Hear me out: a Bitcoin conference, only that there are no tickets, no sponsors, anyone can be a speaker, there is no start or end date, and we all actually live there 👀
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.”
―Matthew 24:6-8
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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg
The enemy can only distract, delay, discourage, and denigrate. It cannot create or destroy. Creation and destruction happen through us: the nodes, the vessels, the conduits.
That’s an important aspect of spiritual warfare: which aims, which powers, which gods do we subject ourselves to? If you think you can bypass this question by focusing on the individual Self, you’re gravely mistaken.
There is no such thing as the Self which is separate from the whole. By thinking that there is, you are already breaking the Golden Rule and paving the way for the pride, the ego, and Luciferian intellectualism to manifest through you.
