Lyra
@lyrasatya.bsky.social
There is nothing to do, you already are.
Advaita Vedanta
Siddha Yoga
Liberation
Two littles call me “mom”
Advaita Vedanta
Siddha Yoga
Liberation
Two littles call me “mom”
“Step out of line and the machine that was built to protect “people like you” turns and eats you the second you choose the wrong side.”
The unstated law of white supremacy is white women's bodies should be “protected.” No white women? No more white people. For the most part, this law remains in effect.
Until it doesn't.
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Until it doesn't.
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Empathy at Scale
When the protections of empire no longer protects you.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“Step out of line and the machine that was built to protect “people like you” turns and eats you the second you choose the wrong side.”
Breathe.
Let that stale air go,
it’s suffocating you.
Let that stale air go,
it’s suffocating you.
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Breathe.
Let that stale air go,
it’s suffocating you.
Let that stale air go,
it’s suffocating you.
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The moment was all; the moment was enough.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
January 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The moment was all; the moment was enough.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Let there be a space in your togetherness
- Kahlil Gibran
- Kahlil Gibran
January 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Let there be a space in your togetherness
- Kahlil Gibran
- Kahlil Gibran
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“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.“
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Selcha Uni
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.“
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Selcha Uni
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.“
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Selcha Uni
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.“
(T.S. Eliot)
🎨 Selcha Uni
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
December 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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The moment you realize you’re observing a sacrament to honor a memory is the moment you have to admit:
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie
Die Hard Is A Christmas Movie
Yippie ki yay motherfuckers.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The moment you realize you’re observing a sacrament to honor a memory is the moment you have to admit:
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie
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The natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only minute and a half. We need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. We lock into painful emotional states [through] our own endless stream of inner dialogue.~Tara Brach
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only minute and a half. We need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. We lock into painful emotional states [through] our own endless stream of inner dialogue.~Tara Brach
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: The world is one family.
- Maha Upanishad
- Maha Upanishad
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: The world is one family.
- Maha Upanishad
- Maha Upanishad
It’s raining outside, yet I’m waiting in line to have the car washed.
A personal attack on my own sense-making.
A personal attack on my own sense-making.
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It’s raining outside, yet I’m waiting in line to have the car washed.
A personal attack on my own sense-making.
A personal attack on my own sense-making.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
- Frederick Buechner
- Frederick Buechner
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
- Frederick Buechner
- Frederick Buechner
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“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.”
- Rohan Kapur
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- Rohan Kapur
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November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.”
- Rohan Kapur
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- Rohan Kapur
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December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.
- Zambian proverb
- Zambian proverb
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.
- Zambian proverb
- Zambian proverb
Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
- Antonio Machado
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
- Antonio Machado
Visionaries are those who dwell in the most fertile field of their consciousness and when they occasionally come out, they can see with utmost clarity.
- Guthema Roba
- Guthema Roba
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Visionaries are those who dwell in the most fertile field of their consciousness and when they occasionally come out, they can see with utmost clarity.
- Guthema Roba
- Guthema Roba
For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns too.
- Egyptian proverb
- Egyptian proverb
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns too.
- Egyptian proverb
- Egyptian proverb
Spiritual narcissism sees self-love as the end goal. Spirituality to the ego-self is an object of attainment, much like fame, wealth, an expensive car and a sexy body.
- Rabbi Alan Lurie
- Rabbi Alan Lurie
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Spiritual narcissism sees self-love as the end goal. Spirituality to the ego-self is an object of attainment, much like fame, wealth, an expensive car and a sexy body.
- Rabbi Alan Lurie
- Rabbi Alan Lurie
Stop weaving a net about yourself:
burst like a lion from the cage.
Melt yourself down in his search:
venture your life and your soul
in the path of sincerity;
strive to pass from nothingness to being,
and make yourself drunk with the wine of God.
- Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth
burst like a lion from the cage.
Melt yourself down in his search:
venture your life and your soul
in the path of sincerity;
strive to pass from nothingness to being,
and make yourself drunk with the wine of God.
- Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Stop weaving a net about yourself:
burst like a lion from the cage.
Melt yourself down in his search:
venture your life and your soul
in the path of sincerity;
strive to pass from nothingness to being,
and make yourself drunk with the wine of God.
- Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth
burst like a lion from the cage.
Melt yourself down in his search:
venture your life and your soul
in the path of sincerity;
strive to pass from nothingness to being,
and make yourself drunk with the wine of God.
- Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth
Spiritual immaturity reflects as zero gravity: No grounding into Truth.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Spiritual immaturity reflects as zero gravity: No grounding into Truth.
“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.”
- Rohan Kapur
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- Rohan Kapur
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D3M...
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Refuge is not the same as submission; it is alignment with the architecture of liberation.”
- Rohan Kapur
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D3M...
- Rohan Kapur
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I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me.
-Kafka
I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be.
-Dostoevsky
-Kafka
I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be.
-Dostoevsky
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me.
-Kafka
I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be.
-Dostoevsky
-Kafka
I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be.
-Dostoevsky
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With due respect to Rilke for the second to last line, I wrote this after going for a walk in the forest whilst in the throes of despair.
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
With due respect to Rilke for the second to last line, I wrote this after going for a walk in the forest whilst in the throes of despair.
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I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
Compliments 💖
You deserve to hear this
dr.eamer.dev
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
The tradition of generosity is lost in cultures where everything has a price.
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The tradition of generosity is lost in cultures where everything has a price.