#aliveness

[jackolyn-hyde]

Omgomg really cool butch pin up calendar that goes to a good cause?????? All funds go to the Aliveness Project, a group fighting HIV/AIDS in the Minneapolis/St Paul

Butch boudoir calendar for a good cause. All profits going to the Aliveness Project in Minneapolis. Ran by local lgbt folks in the Twin Citi

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

rose by louise bourgeois, 2002, color lithograph on fabric, 12 × 12.5 inches

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Keep awake - alive - New. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.  - Tennessee Williams

[whiskey river]

[metamorphicmuse]

“I breathe into the ache, not to make it disappear, but to honor the work it took to feel this alive.”

[life-in-the-freefall]

Not even oneness.

This “message” isn’t about belief, truth, knowing, or connection. Those all presume separation and someone having them. Which are both illusions. It’s the apparent end of the one who could ever know or believe anything.

It’s not that “all things are connected” or “part of a whole”, that’s still the dream of parts, relationships, meaning and separation. There aren’t any things at all. No parts to connect, no whole to reach, no one to be unified or separate.

It can’t be proven because it’s not separate from anything. Proof would need distance, but there’s none. No subject, no object. Just what is. Not a state, not a belief, not a knowing. Too simple for that, not even oneness.

It doesn’t bring peace or frustration or any particular outcome, because there’s no one left to receive anything. Just this, already. Whatever’s seemingly happening. Nothing to gain and no one to get it.

Thoughts can still circle, calling it “pure emptiness” or “oneness,” but that’s only the dream interpreting the dream… thought speaking to thought, trying to pin down the ungraspable. It turns what is (nothing) into something- something to understand, believe, grasp, keeping the loop of separation alive.

Thoughts may still circle, calling it “pure emptiness” or “oneness,” but that’s only the dream interpreting the dream… thought talking to thought, trying to pin down the ungraspable. It turns what is (nothing) into something to understand, believe, or grasp, keeping the loop of separation alive.

Even framing “oneness” as a belief some people feel as true keeps the subject–object split: someone feeling, someone believing, someone experiencing. That isn’t the collapse of the dream, it’s just the dream trying to explain itself. And it sounds so reasonable, which is why it’s so seductive. But in the end, it still says: “you are here and something else is there.”

Still waiting…

Still suffering…

Still searching…

Still interpreting…

And what’s being pointed to has nothing to do with any of that. Not even close.

[ofruinsandmyth]

[dandelionsandcacti]

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

— Alan Watts

[ourinternallandscapetarot]

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." 🌻

– Hans Christian Andersen