From a book of epigrams: Optical Biases, by Richard Krause

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"When you are born with a strong presentiment of death, life advances toward death in reverse... you die, then you live, suffer, and finally are born. 🪷 Why do the heights require the suppression of appetite? Why do poets, musicians, mystics and saints use askesis in various ways? Voluntary hunger is a road to heaven." —Emil Cioran, Tears & Saints @npub1kt3h...5004 #books #literature #quotes #spirituality

Inyun: Buddhist-derived concept that suggests that every meeting between two souls is the product of countless interactions or near-interactions in their past lives. #fate #relationships #destiny #buddhism #life #mystery

“I live my life in widening circles” I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I will give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song? — Rainer Maria Rilke #poetry #spirituality #prayer #inspiration #WritingCommunity

Amazing cactus 🌵 #bloomscrolling #nature #flowers

If, as #Rumi says, the wound is the place where the #Light enters us, then we must keep our wound clean. #selfcare #life

Signs of spiritual evolution? That our slighter transgressions torment us, longer. #spirituality #video #ethics

Thinking of #Colombia 🇨🇴 Here are #photos from a mind-blowing 🤯 #flower #Festival that I attended : #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photography #naturephotography #photo #culture #travel #memories

Acceptance is not to steal from each day, but to receive with open hands only what is freely offered.

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Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

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Gift from writer Sherman Alexie, a signed copy of his fine letterpress #book. “A Memory of Elephants” is a limited edition of only 500 copies. This slim volume is a confessional collection of poems that explores mental disorder, regret for things left unsaid to parents, tribal identity, #love and questions to #God. @npub1kt3h...5004 #books #poetry #family #mentalhealth

Cancel Culture What happens to a canceled person what becomes of their uncancelable spirit If they are an #artist, where do they go to share their undimmed vision of #beauty the eternal moonlight illuminating their enduring dark nights of the #soul who witnesses their contrition, redemption or #transformation How might we pray for Mercy when we have become wrathful deities?

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Views from Geneva, #switzerland #nature #architecture #travel #photography

‘True revelations are granted by Grace. They are soft whispers, often in the desert; or the wilderness; in prison or in quarantine. They come from a small still voice in the wilderness…’

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📖 #Today's #meditation : 🪷 We live and unlearn… 🪷

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#Today The snow of old age falls, daily while I stand before the mirror using the razor as a shovel to clear the walkway to a face I remember. #poetry #writing #time

We live only to discover #beauty. All else is a form of waiting. — Kahlil Gibran [#Nature #photography: Kent Burgess] #motivation #inspiration #photo #naturephotography #quote #photos

Luck: another name for Grace. ✨ Chance: another word for Destiny.

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Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

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‘As for the signal of my heart and the plans of my flesh, as for the writing on the wall, I am always ignoramus: I can’t read or write and my head is empty as a weed, knowing only the secret whisper and the motion in the wind when a fate passes through me, to some other place.' — Yehuda Amichai, “As for the World” ( #translation : Stephen Mitchell ) #poetry #israel #mystery

"Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen." — Melville, Moby Dick * "Thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen." — Exodus, Bible #quotes #literature #bible #mystery #spirituality

🗞️ #Google’s “Genesis“ #AI can write #news articles Google is actively meeting with news organizations to pitch an AI tool, code-named "Genesis," that can write news articles. • The tool has been pitched to several publications, including New York Times, Washington Post, & the owner of Wall Street Journal • Google clarifies that the AI-enabled tools are not meant to replace #journalists but rather to act as co-pilots #Tech #technology #technews #journalism #artificialintelligence