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International Man of Mysticism, 30 or 40 years old

[freelance-philosopher]

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

June is a “Man’s Month” meaning it’s a month where men / boyz can just chill-out. i know that’s misogynous but it’s OK

[kurxmi-dxll-deactivated20260517]

I’m really into devotion and adoration actually

[orthodoxadventure]

Now our headlong rush for pleasure isn't only the result of its attraction, but also of the fear of pain, used to taking refuge in the opposite, in pleasure, not only the pain, but even the absence of pleasure is a pain or a condition which he runs away from in fright. And he who is a slave of fear, whose nature is thus weakened, is at the opposite pole of the person with a strong nature. The man with a cowardly or weakened nature is, against his will, swept along by every stimulus of the senses; he is no longer a person, but an object easily blown around by any wind. The man with a strong nature who has control of himself, is a free man, whose own nature and that around him is ruled by spirit. So the restraint from pleasure and the patient endurance of suffering, far from being something negative-passive and of a weak nature, instead strengthen it and this means a spiritualization, or the putting of the spirit in control. After all, both pleasure and pain affect the fleshly side of the body. And he who has ennobled the spirit to overpower the flesh has brought it to the point where it no longer vibrates with such sensitivity to pleasure and pain.

Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar by Saint Dumitru Stăniloae

[awarenessisnondual]

Ashtavakra Gita ~ Ch.12, v. 1

[quantumofawesome]

I only just now realized how funny of a word "discombobulated" is.

[quantumofawesome]

It sounds like a joke

[kata4a]

that's because it is

[victusinveritas]

I've seen this circulating before and am sure it will again, but here it is now.

[wunkmanson-ofhousedickerson]

Hi American here, it's because the devil is a loser and can be beaten by children even

[909th]

it’s all too kiki for my bouba sensibilities

[cosmonautroger]

Chuck Schuldiner, Death, 1991

[kshamananda]

Think Chuck would have reframed this answer later on in life. But who am I to speak for the dead.

[vampirecorleone]

"All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time." | "For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light." The Fountain (2006) dir. Darren Aronofsky

[mechangelism]

CYBER MARY

[darkwebdad-deactivated20160207]

listening to phil collins

[important-cat-pics]

[squinty-cat]

…the most beautiful Zen garden in the world

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Gahan Wilson

[onion-souls]

Your social media platform's ads are weird, but are they ...uh... pro-Demiurge neo-gnostic religion weird?

[funeral]

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

[garbuge]

my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."

[flanneldragon]