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Observations on the Way
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I find incurious conformity to be a huge turn off. Just saying.
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The most powerful spiritual initiations begin with a profound loss.
It's when you lose someone you love, let it break your heart entirely, and allow that broken heart to remain open long enough that suddenly you feel EVERYTHING; all the sadness you suppressed, all the joy you were too numb to appreciate, all the tears that became too frozen to cry.
The intensity of a profound loss can crack open the emotional body so violently that the floodgates of decades of emotional suppression release all at…
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The relationship we have with ourselves is the most important one we will ever have 💖
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True story!
🤯 How Alchemical Transformation Leads to Transcending Current Reality Constructs
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It's a busy time on the homestead right now so as much as I would like to sit down and write something there probably won't be much time for that for a while. I'm not complaining though as we are finally reaping the rewards of two years of soil remediation! Below are just a few things that I am preserving via fermentation and my freezer …
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Humanity started to take the wrong turn when they started listening to the machines more than they listened to the messages they got from their dreams
keep creating 🎨🖌️🎶✍️
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Today I battled tomato hornworms, mice or rats, who knows, ants, slugs, and stifling heat and humidity, and itty bitty bunnies that have made their way into our garden. It's been a day, to say the least. Nonetheless I will get up and do it all again tomorrow. Days like today I really wish that I could ask my grandparents how they did It.…
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What say you?
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I like this. This resonates! I have no desire to be ‘on’ all the time and I can't, and won't, produce content on demand. When I write something it must feel inspired to me. If I don't feel that way you won't see me writing. I have learned the hard way that forcing production results in sub quality work. And it just feels icky if I am hon…
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I think the new trend will be disappearing into a life of offline solitude, rather than oversharing your entire life in a desire to be a famous influencer
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Thank you very much.
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Yes…anyone else?
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Yes!
Be a rebel . Be wild ,undomesticated !!!
Who are you truly 🫵
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One thing no one tells you about the individuation process is that it will make you seem more unhinged to regular people except it will feel completely natural and normal to you
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This morning I worked in the chicken coop, garden, and we flushed the well. Trying to get all outdoor chores done before the rain comes. Again. It's been so wet lately that our blueberries are exploding on the vine. Wild blackberries are thriving! Nothing seems to bother them as they showed up here on their own. I am fermenting some gold…
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I believe so
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Have no expectations of it.
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Prove me wrong.
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Most people think being calm means having no anxiety.
No.
It means being aware enough not to let anxiety run you.
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Letting go of what can't be changed. Good timing 🎯
Me right now. The inner path calls. Feeling super creative for it. Recommended.
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This morning I was working in the garden and dozens of bees 🐝 swarmed around me. They were busy working in the garden too and were curious about what I was doing there. 🐝As I tied up one of my huge zucchini plants to large steak, that seems determined to take over the garden😳, I assured them that I wasn't a threat to them. Not sure th…
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You're not the only one
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Unlearn and reconsider it all.
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When did privacy become not a thing? It needs to make a comeback.
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Love this!
Key Traits of Humble People:
Active Listening: They prioritize understanding others rather than dominating conversations.
Accountability: They own up to their mistakes instead of deflecting blame.
Willingness to Learn: They recognize they do not know everything and appreciate different perspectives.
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Nature is so amazing. Every morning I water, weed, and harvest whatever produce is ripe. A bean can be small in the morning and when I check in the afternoon it's grown big and ready to be picked. I cut back and harvest lettuce and arugula and in a day or so it's ready to be harvested again. Tomatoes and jalapeño's are starting to grow a…
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It's becoming pretty obvious that social media is contributing to a widespread decline in human decency.
Algorithms now reward outrage and clickbait designed to provoke anger and upset. This incentivizes disordered behaviour, like those who thrive on making others angry just to get attention.
People are burnt out from overstimulation and dopamine overload. It takes more and more emotionally dysregulating content to capture their attention.
Nuance and takes with depth get buried, while the most pol…
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Which type are you?
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Take me or leave me.
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You need time alone to clear the psychic debris in your mind and the thoughts and ideas you pick up from others. You need silence and boredom to tap into your creativity.
Most people are terrified of being alone with their thoughts, never mind plumbing into the depths of their psyche and all the memories and images that reside there, so they fill their lives with noise, information, social media, YouTube, and podcasts, constantly keeping themselves busy. They are often running away from themsel…
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I can attest to this!
Taking care of a garden does something to your soul. It teaches you lessons about life & death and it teaches you virtues like patience. It teaches you to observe the natural world and notice how it responds to the seasons. It gets you off the screen and requires you work with your hands again. The plants will begin to speak to you if you know how to listen.
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Many intuitive people are retreating into hermit mode. Social media has become too draining.
There's a growing need to protect our energy.
Those with depth in their soul are craving reflections that can't be condensed into a 90-second reel.
This kind of depth isn't found in an algorithm designed to reward soundbites and stir outrage instead of offering insight.
A new wave is emerging.
This new wave consists of people who recognize the psychological warfare embedded in these platforms.
They understand…
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I see you in your wholeness
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I’m not antisocial. I’m vibrationally selective.
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If I wake up in a bad mood and think to myself ‘ this is unacceptable…this is wrong…I’m better than this, I’m fucking up and need to fix it’…I’ve lost.
If I wake up in a bad mood and say ‘ ah…lows are a part of life, I accept this low and I will hold it lightly, I will be gentle with myself today’ I’ve won.
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This is soooo cool! Thank you Sol and Nathan 💃🕺🪩🙏🏻👏
Enjoy my friend Nathan Cloud’s fun re-presentation of this wonderful chat …
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For all of my overthinking creative humans out there….
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“the three jewels of wisdom of Taoism are gentleness, frugality, and humility.”
-Bahm, 1958
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My favorite people are the real ones, the dreamers and believers with irrational passions. The lovers, the huggers, the poets and healers who follow their heart instead of the crowd.
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I heard someone say:
"If these times haven't made you yet say fuck it, I'm going to live life according to my own rules and pursue what is uniquely meaningful to my soul, the I don't know what will."
I think there's definitely a point to it. I also think these times will either awaken you or get you into a deeper slumber.
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those who escape hell
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Well, writing is very gratifying. Gardening and raising poultry is a whole other level. It's very humbling. I have worked very hard to achieve the soil quality we now have and it's paying off. I am slowly but surely working on a new written piece but this is currently a work of art that I am very excited about and proud of! So I thought I'd share.
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The best way to gain an audience these days is to identify with the opposites. Polarization. Black-and-white thinking. Dehumanizing one side and elevating the other. Nuance is boring. It doesn’t perform well for the algorithm. It doesn’t enrage enough.
But in real life, people are complex. They live lives of paradox. Of both and. Hence, why social media is becoming exhausting for most people. It doesn’t reflect reality.
I predict the culture wars will end not because one sides narrative will win…
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Nothing is as it initially seems. Slow waaay down with judgement. More now than ever. Feel it but slow down in forming an opinion. Breathe through it.
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So true lol
To paraphrase Alan Watts, converting bullshit to laughter is the essence of real religion.
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Brilliant!
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Yes it would. Thank you Darcy Dudeck for sharing!
Such wonderful words of wisdom from April Novoa in this article 🙏
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Very solid observation
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I enjoyed our conversation very much! Thank you for sharing these Sol. 🙏🏻😊
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So many of us are losing friends to brainrot. They communicate in TikToks and reels. They do not read. They do not think. Their attention span has dwindled to mere seconds. This new generation thinks in memes, viral sounds, and sound bites; their opinions are not their own, but a mixture of whatever slop the algorithm is serving today.
It doesn't have to be this way. Always ask yourself who benefits from you being illiterate and having the attention span of a goldfish. It's not you. We have more power than we think. But we must get our minds back.
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It's subtle but is happening.
Another trend of Uranus in Gemini: Sick of the “fentanyl-like-slop” of endless short-form videos and the short attention span epidemic and literacy crisis it’s creating, a relatively small, but important portion of the population, will quite suddenly quit social media entirely as a rebellion and start an entirely new era of analog-learn…
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The bad news: The world is changing at a rapid pace and we’re moving into a time of great instability and uncertainty.
The good news: Chaos and destruction are fertile soil for new creation. What dies becomes compost to spark rebirth.
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We are making things too complex. If we were to just observe our breath all day, that would be enough.
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So true! 💯💯💯
Get rid o’ those suckers …
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Rather busy right now with food production but I managed to write one article.
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Always listen to the art
By Junot Díaz
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Beautiful artwork of Marwan's poem by Winsor Kinkade
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This tweet just keeps becoming more relevant
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When you realize that maybe the Matrix isn’t meant to be changed, that the only thing designed to be upgraded is … yourself.
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“Reality is like magic. Because it is. Thanks to your magical attention. See how this works?”
#attention #magic #magical #magicalrealism #maya #natureofreality #observereffect #powerofattention #simulation #simulationtheory
[goodreads.com\ \ A quote from Get Out of Here Alive\ \ Reality is like magic. Because it is. Thanks to your magical attention. See how this works?\ \
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You don't always rise by lifting others. If you're not careful, sometimes that's how you sink.
You rise by prioritizing your alignment with your heart. So that when you happen to lift others, it comes from heart-centered generosity, rather than social coercion or self depletion.
"You rise by lifting others" is often how we rationalize martyrdom and chronic self abandonment.
Lifting others from chronic self depletion isn't true generosity. It slowly amplifies resentment.
The addiction to be seen as selfless is an energetic hemorrhage.
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Funniest thing I've seen all day! 😂😂😂
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I second the motion
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Yes it is!
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You are part of nature!
Full interview below ⬇️ ☯️
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Keeping a garden is a spiritual practice. Each plant has a spirit and elemental being that watches over it.
The more in tune you are with the plant spirit and elemental, the more you will know how to treat the plant.
The plants speak to those who know how to listen.
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Damn straight
He has some good deep material
And you know what I say …
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I couldn't have summarized this good . I highly recommend you check it out!
The importance of slowing down to observe internal attachments without judgment …
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Sorry, not sorry.
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“We do not talk—we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Talk is personal and if of any value must be creative.”
— Henry Miller
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Wise old man has spoken…
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This is excellent!
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Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
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📝 #Thoreau Was Basically #Taoist #taoism #spirituality #writer #writers #author #simplicity
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Uhh yep
If you pray for peace and then get shown the places within where you are still at war with yourself, do not assume the prayer is not working.
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I know this made its rounds, but I still love this meme.
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Gonna keep postin’ stuff your shadow doesn’t like till it does.
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I am so excited about this! Check it out!
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Such a great conversation! I hope this is helpful. 🙏🏻
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Don't drain your energy
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