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“I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour.”

Dr George Washington Carver

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the journey from being a girl to a woman

"around 28, something shifted. when i started caring more about how i feel, versus how i'm perceived."

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visibility ≠ influence

participation ≠ impact

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If we should live in the present moment, how are we supposed to plan for the future?

Planning and ruminating are two different things.

What do I need to do, VS what could happen and running scenarios over and over. Imagine you are packing for a camping trip. What do you need, what’s the plan. VS running emotional scenarios about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EckhartTolle/comments/1t6o5b6/if_we_should_live_in_the_present_moment_how_are/

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Between Dijon and Beaune

Pinot noir - one grape - one year - one patch of soil - one bottle. What makes them different is their soil. The grand cru is the most fortunate soil. I appreciate the simplicity

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“The illusion you kind of have to kill is that it’s going to work out,” she said, talking about her breakups. “Because eventually you’re going to die, right?”

Robyn

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/robyn-profile

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How Solange Built Her Taste

A masterclass on proximity, medium, and exploration

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writing made me confident, finally

building self-trust as a forever shy girl

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That wasn’t the moment, but that day I realised I didn’t actually need the life raft of nerves, of hours upon hours of preparation and concern. I had walked to the edge of the cliff and she pushed me off. I screamed on the way down but when I hit the water I realised I could swim. It was the push I would never have guessed I needed. Little did I know, now I had started along this path, those little nudges would never stop. They often came about one single breath after I started feeling comfortable again.

Finding your path does not mean life is easy. But it does mean the current tends to keep pulling you along, often before you feel you’re ready.

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I always hated the wind, tried to change the part of myself that moved like it. Collecting the scent of pollen from one flower and another, rushing through reeds, moving through spray of a waterfall, hiding up in the clouds, never with one particular destination in mind, but set on discovering and studying, accumulating the right colours, scents, elements and experiences along the way.

We’re told it’s wrong, to be unsure of where the path is taking us.

But I’m quite sure it’s a gift.

soon it will all make sense

keep trusting the path

[dreamstars]

[radical-revolution]

This process (Experience → Know → Create→ Feel) is a self-perpetuating loop that shapes our reality and determines how we respond to our needs. To break negative patterns or create different outcomes, one must disrupt the cycle by changing their thoughts or behaviors.

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I don't want to build an empire

I want to live a beautiful & imperfect life

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i'm getting used to my blocks,

2 and a half years later,

it feels comforting

like it's all good when i get home

no matter the rambunctiousness

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Never let your situation decide what you can do

You can do whatever you want if you have the will to do it

[nevver]

Drive till dawn, Jin 성진 (@jintoniic)

[lazyyogi]

The self-knowledge encouraged by the spiritual path is the intimate revelation of that Awareness which exists before mind and body even appear.

The “self-knowledge” encouraged by society means solidifying the character you are going to roleplay through life.

The more certainly you buy into the “self-knowledge” of society, the more brittle you will become. This is me, this isn’t me, this is what matters to me, that doesn’t matter to me, I will open myself to this set of experiences and close myself off to those others, etc.

It is the dreaming we call the ego.

We are all roleplaying while forgetting ourselves, like snowmen who have forgotten water. Roleplaying + Forgetting = Dreaming.

In order to interface with human society, a degree of roleplaying is necessary. But when you forget or don’t know you are roleplaying, you are lost in the dream-state.

The self-knowledge of the spiritual way will liberate you from the suffering of the dream-state. Most of us don’t realize that we are suffering or we don’t realize the root cause of our suffering. We blame circumstances or other people or past traumas but we never go all the way to cut into the heart of the matter. Instead we continue the roleplay, drinking saltwater and expecting hydration.

You are free to be free from all of these limits. So ask yourself: Why aren’t you?