We cannot predict the results of healing, either our own or the world around us. We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.
—Rachel Pollack
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Public Service Notice: Please refrain from microdosing mass psychosis via chronic social media absorption.
Warning: side effects include the sensation of being well-informed, an elevated certainty about complex matters, and a progressive inability to distinguish your outrage from your personality.
RADICAL CURIOSITY: enthusiasm for the mystery embedded in the mundane; preference for questions over answers; aversion to stereotyping, generalizations, & jumping to conclusions;
belief that people are unsolvable puzzles; lack of interest in possessing or dominating what you are curious about.
Why do I keep posting here on BlueSky, even though very few people ever read my posts?
I do it because every now and then I give a rare someone out there just the inspiration they need to live their life with more courage and joy.
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, don't slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."
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We can't live securely in a world that's not our own, in a world that's interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world isn't a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to see our own light, which is our birthright, and comes to us in silence.
Elaine Bellezza
there’s always a little joy, and even beauty
lies close at hand, beneath the bark
of every hour, in the quiet heart of concentration,
and another person hides in each of us –
universal, strong, invincible.
– Adam Zagajewski, from “Three Angels”, translated by Clare Cavanagh
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You don't have to be anything you don’t want to
You don't have to live up to anyone’s expectations
There's no need to strive for a perfection that's not interesting
You don't have to believe in ideas that torment you
You don't have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly and strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed and monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one's own.
- Aracelis Girmay
"No one can give you the lightning-medicine."
—the people who cannot give you the lightning-medicine
(as told by Darin Stevenson)
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A person must break with the illusion that her life has already been written and her path already determined.
—Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
~ Wendell Berry
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"I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God."
—woman in front of me in the check out line
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Eckhart Tolle: "Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it. Seeking is the antithesis of happiness."
He's wrong
This book is right: "How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People"
It says the number one trait of happy people is a serious determination to be happy
Do you vow to conspire with me to perpetrate lucid dreams and intimate empathy and revolutionary fucks and plain old everyday miracles that will overthrow the psychopathic misogynist plutocratic militarism that desecrates the ecosphere?
I have not seen these studies even once during the past 12 months, and I read voraciously.
Getting near zero responses to this post, which is close to my heart, suggests that posting on BlueSky is not a good use of my time!
MAGA politicians say undocumented immigrants are “rapists” and “criminals,” but actual crime data point the other way
Across the best studies, undocumented immigrants consistently show lower crime rates than native‑born U.S. citizens, for both violent and non‑violent offenses.
tinyurl.com/LowCrime
Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile.
Don’t listen to them. Don't give up
A better world is possible
We will win. We must
—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
There have been at least 27 shootings by ICE agents since January 20, 2025, of which 8 have resulted in deaths. tinyurl.com/ICEviolence
First invitation: Weed out the wishy-washy wishes and lukewarm longings that distract you from your burning desires. Second invitation: Refuse to think that anyone else knows better than you what dreams will keep your life energy humming with maximum efficiency and grace. Third invitation: Say this: "I know exactly what I want. I know exactly what I don't want. I know exactly what I kind of want but I won't waste my time on it because it sidetracks me from working on what I really want."
The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.
—Caroline Myss, Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness
"HopePunk" refers to the tender ferocity with which we perpetrate peace, love, & understanding. It's a battle cry inspiring us to infuse our rage for justice with compassion. It activates our nuanced and ingenious soul power to deal with the cruelty that's loose in the world.
I aspire to develop the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful and the most useful. Perfect success is never an option.
Lord, make me a channel of disturbance. Where there is apathy, let me provoke. Where there is compliance, let me bring questioning. Where there is silence, may I be a voice. Where there is too much comfort and too little action, grant me disruption. When laws dictate that pain is ignored, when tradition speaks louder than need, grant that I may seek to do justice rather than talk about it. {The author of this prayer is unknown.}
As always, this week’s Free Will Astrology horoscopes are designed to honor and foster your lust for life and joie de vivre.
tinyurl.com/YourLustForL...
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Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
—Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
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