Eudaimoniae
@eudaimoniae.bsky.social
Alchemy, Essene Priest, Eleusinian Mysteries, Gnosticism, Classical Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Orphism, Pythagorean, initiated in Sufism & Vedanta, Dionysiac, Psychonaut, Pagan Polytheist, Writer, Philosopher, Portland Antiracist, Antifascist, USAF Veteran
We wait, starving for moments of High Magick to inspire us, but life is already full of common enchantments just waiting for our alchemists' eyes to notice.
- Jacob Nordby
- Jacob Nordby
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We wait, starving for moments of High Magick to inspire us, but life is already full of common enchantments just waiting for our alchemists' eyes to notice.
- Jacob Nordby
- Jacob Nordby
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
— Anais Nin
— Anais Nin
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
— Anais Nin
— Anais Nin
If you observe nature and perceive only matter, your attention doesn’t penetrate deeply enough. No matter what’s in your field of vision, quiet your mind, put aside your ideas and let your vision merge completely with the objects of your sense perception: all you will see is God. 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you observe nature and perceive only matter, your attention doesn’t penetrate deeply enough. No matter what’s in your field of vision, quiet your mind, put aside your ideas and let your vision merge completely with the objects of your sense perception: all you will see is God. 🙏
If truth and good are crushed, beauty will perform the work of all three.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If truth and good are crushed, beauty will perform the work of all three.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Is your craving for the Real
greater than the desire
to be seen by others
in some particular way
or is the path overgrown,
obscured by the ego's tangle
of endless self
admiration?
greater than the desire
to be seen by others
in some particular way
or is the path overgrown,
obscured by the ego's tangle
of endless self
admiration?
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Is your craving for the Real
greater than the desire
to be seen by others
in some particular way
or is the path overgrown,
obscured by the ego's tangle
of endless self
admiration?
greater than the desire
to be seen by others
in some particular way
or is the path overgrown,
obscured by the ego's tangle
of endless self
admiration?
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
- Bokar Rinpoche
- Bokar Rinpoche
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
- Bokar Rinpoche
- Bokar Rinpoche
Go sweep out
the chamber of your heart
make it ready
to be the dwelling of the Beloved
When you depart, love will enter
In you void of yourself
God will display his beauty
- Mahmoud Shabistari
the chamber of your heart
make it ready
to be the dwelling of the Beloved
When you depart, love will enter
In you void of yourself
God will display his beauty
- Mahmoud Shabistari
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Go sweep out
the chamber of your heart
make it ready
to be the dwelling of the Beloved
When you depart, love will enter
In you void of yourself
God will display his beauty
- Mahmoud Shabistari
the chamber of your heart
make it ready
to be the dwelling of the Beloved
When you depart, love will enter
In you void of yourself
God will display his beauty
- Mahmoud Shabistari
This is no mystery to the awakened heart; Peace on earth to men of universal will, who rise above their selfish limitations and see the world as God would have them see.
- Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
- Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is no mystery to the awakened heart; Peace on earth to men of universal will, who rise above their selfish limitations and see the world as God would have them see.
- Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
- Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.
- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.
- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Conventional knowledge always deceives
It always limits the Truth; every concept and image does.
From cage to cage the caravan moves,
but I give thanks,
for at each divine juncture
my wings expand
and I
touch Him more
intimately.
- Meister Eckhart
It always limits the Truth; every concept and image does.
From cage to cage the caravan moves,
but I give thanks,
for at each divine juncture
my wings expand
and I
touch Him more
intimately.
- Meister Eckhart
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Conventional knowledge always deceives
It always limits the Truth; every concept and image does.
From cage to cage the caravan moves,
but I give thanks,
for at each divine juncture
my wings expand
and I
touch Him more
intimately.
- Meister Eckhart
It always limits the Truth; every concept and image does.
From cage to cage the caravan moves,
but I give thanks,
for at each divine juncture
my wings expand
and I
touch Him more
intimately.
- Meister Eckhart
Were not the eye like to the sun
The sun it never would perceive;
Were God's own power not in us,
How ever could the Divine enchant us?
- Goethe
The sun it never would perceive;
Were God's own power not in us,
How ever could the Divine enchant us?
- Goethe
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Were not the eye like to the sun
The sun it never would perceive;
Were God's own power not in us,
How ever could the Divine enchant us?
- Goethe
The sun it never would perceive;
Were God's own power not in us,
How ever could the Divine enchant us?
- Goethe
But when you see the formless, very holy fire shining by leaps and bounds throughout the depths of the whole world, (then) listen to the voice of the fire.
- Chaldean Oracles, trans. Ruth Majercik
- Chaldean Oracles, trans. Ruth Majercik
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
But when you see the formless, very holy fire shining by leaps and bounds throughout the depths of the whole world, (then) listen to the voice of the fire.
- Chaldean Oracles, trans. Ruth Majercik
- Chaldean Oracles, trans. Ruth Majercik
Field of vision implies something outside of "you" but there's no such thing. Your field of vision is really your expansiveness, your field of being. The eye is merely an aperture; your luminosity flows both directions through it. Vision isn't confined to biology: it is light, pervading everywhere.
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Field of vision implies something outside of "you" but there's no such thing. Your field of vision is really your expansiveness, your field of being. The eye is merely an aperture; your luminosity flows both directions through it. Vision isn't confined to biology: it is light, pervading everywhere.
Immortality, by the way, is not something you can pursue; it is a natural result of attuning your life to the Way. Becoming immortal does not happen because of the many things you do, but because of the many things you do not do.
- Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni
- Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Immortality, by the way, is not something you can pursue; it is a natural result of attuning your life to the Way. Becoming immortal does not happen because of the many things you do, but because of the many things you do not do.
- Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni
- Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awaken from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awaken from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
- David Whyte, The House of Belonging
- David Whyte, The House of Belonging
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
- David Whyte, The House of Belonging
- David Whyte, The House of Belonging
If you're on Facebook and live near Portland, Oregon, I now manage the page Queen of Heaven - Ecclesia Gnostica of Portland, OR, where I post announcements about Sunday services and other events. This Sunday will be 10:30 am Gnostic Holy Rosary and 11:00 am Templar Sunday - Knights of Holy Wisdom 🙏📿
October 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If you're on Facebook and live near Portland, Oregon, I now manage the page Queen of Heaven - Ecclesia Gnostica of Portland, OR, where I post announcements about Sunday services and other events. This Sunday will be 10:30 am Gnostic Holy Rosary and 11:00 am Templar Sunday - Knights of Holy Wisdom 🙏📿
God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
- The Book of Twenty-Four Philosophers
- The Book of Twenty-Four Philosophers
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
- The Book of Twenty-Four Philosophers
- The Book of Twenty-Four Philosophers
The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.
- Patrick Harpur
- Patrick Harpur
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.
- Patrick Harpur
- Patrick Harpur
Can we recognize the presence of divinity when it’s manifesting right before our eyes? Friends sharing joy together, real joy… that is the literal presence of God. 🙏
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Can we recognize the presence of divinity when it’s manifesting right before our eyes? Friends sharing joy together, real joy… that is the literal presence of God. 🙏