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Gracjan Pietras
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GracjanPietras 4 months ago
I’m hooked on Abundance Through Scarcity by @Ioni Appelberg. A mind-bending take on how scarcity sparks creativity & growth. Read it for psychonaut-level insights. #bookstr image
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GracjanPietras 5 months ago
We've been chained to reality and conditioned to fear it. But as chaotic, noisy, and fearful as reality may be, it is also constantly underpinned by silence. Meditation helps us find that silence and spend time in it. This dissolves the chains and uproots the fear, allowing us to be free and happy. #meditation
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GracjanPietras 8 months ago
Be loving, kind, and forgiving. It will protect you from yourself. Call it enlightened selfishness. #meditation
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GracjanPietras 8 months ago
Everything we perceive is a hallucination rendered by our brains, pinging reality’s server for sensory data, letting us map and navigate the network of existence. Dreams are such hallucinations too, but the brain runs them offline, generating output without pinging reality’s server.
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GracjanPietras 8 months ago
Pneuma is breath. In Stoicism, it is the spirit—the very seed of all life. 'Become pneuma' is perhaps the most powerful meditation instruction. Focus on breath to become breath. Enjoy... #Tool #tunestr #meditation
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GracjanPietras 9 months ago
'The Ethics of Liberty' by Rothbard is a great read, even if you don’t agree with everything he writes. Although I am personally closer to Mises, Rothbard’s talent for rigorous logical reasoning is truly impressive. #bookstr #Rothbard image
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GracjanPietras 9 months ago
🧘🏻‍♂️ A few meditation instructions for those who practise daily 🧘🏻‍♂️ Disclaimer: I apologise if this sounds like gibberish. Language is a blunt tool. What is happening now? And now... And now... And now... Second by second. Meditation is about the relentless noticing that all contents populating consciousness (images, sounds, sensations, thoughts) remain in a state of continuous change, whether we want it to or not. Where is the silence? Even in times of unrest and chaos, stillness is present and permeates everything. Seek out this silence, find it, and try to spend time within it. Use the silent space as a vantage point for observing and noticing whatever is happening now. And now... Where am I? What am I? Who am I? In the silent space, you may notice that, among other things, the Self is also present. It’s that feeling (contraction?) that you are you. It’s the part of you that wants or doesn’t want things, that desires and protests. It’s the part that refuses to let go. Notice it and return to the silence. And again. And again. Everyone’s inner space is different. Please share your tips on how to practise. With metta.
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GracjanPietras 11 months ago
Yesterday's performance by Trump and Vance was not a display of power. It was a theatre for the crowd, underpinned by narcissism and helplessness. To be honest, it was quite pathetic. (Art by Matylda Damięcka / Radek Łukasiewicz) image
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GracjanPietras 11 months ago
I understand realpolitik and the transactional nature of international relations. Still, using an invasion and the threat of existential destruction to force a country to surrender half of its rare resources in exchange for protection is nothing but racketeering. It is morally reprehensible.
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GracjanPietras 11 months ago
Soon, the Polish edition of the book "Broken Money" by the brilliant @Lyn Alden will be published by Freedom Publishing. I had the great pleasure of working with the publisher as a consultant on the Polish version of the book. The book doesn't need advertising here on nostr, but I am glad it will reach a wider audience of Polish readers. You can also become a patron of this edition today, which I warmly encourage. More information can be found on the publisher's website: #BrokenMoney
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GracjanPietras 11 months ago
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs addresses Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the UN General Assembly today. Thoughts?