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“When you are dreaming of what is possible for your life, you should know that anything is possible. You may not always feel it or see it, but you never for a single moment lack the capacity to change course. Your life is subject to infinite revision.”

— His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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Saddleback College held a discussion on potential new mascots, so a student sent me the zoom link.

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“Quest For Mindfulness” by Cameron Gray

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“Funny, I’d forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you’re more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

— Ann Shulgin

entheognosis

“How odd it is that writers like Belloc and Chesterton may sing the praises of alcohol (which is responsible for about two-thirds of the car accidents and three-quarters of the crimes of violence) and be regarded as good Christians and noble fellows. Whereas anyone who ventures to suggest that there may be other and less harmful shortcuts to self-transcendence is treated as a dangerous drug fiend and wicked perverter of weak-minded humanity.””

—

Aldous Huxley

entheognosis

“We are discovering that human beings are creatures of chemical habit with the same horrified disbelief as when the Victorians discovered that humans are creatures of sexual fantasy and obsession.”

— Terence McKenna

entheognosis

The corpse of a boreal raccoon, with mushrooms growing from the palm of its paw, like a bouquet of flowers from the afterlife

quietlotus

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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— “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

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betweenthemustypages: — “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

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Waiting their turn

caroldanversenthusiast

i want to live in Dakota Johnson’s brain

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quietlotus

“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”

— Thomas Merton