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🇨🇦 Gerrit
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On Hiatus To Do Analog Things.
"We are all just walking each other home." Ram Das
Focus: #wisdom #climate #beauty #Canada.
Me: 👨🏻‍🦳🇨🇦🇿🇦🪖♿️🏺🥗 [Ally: 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🖤🤎🌍]
Dad & FIL of 🏳️‍🌈 & 🏳️‍⚧️
Today, I will remember
the advice of Epictetus:
“Seek not good from without.
Seek it within yourselves,
or you will never find it.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.

Tao Te Ching, ch. 71
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October 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stafan Draschan captures people looking at paintings.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
TY. I reposted this link; it is marvelous!

Sorry, Roger, I mean the source for this lovely painting. It is so captivating.
All the best, G.
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Around 60 per cent of rivers globally had either too much or too little water in 2024. (WMO)"

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September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today, I will pay attention to
what Thich Nhat Hanh called
the “energy of mindfulness,”
such that compassion may radiate
from the eternal source within.
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This account will be doing some low flying
over the next days. 🦉
I've got a book to read. 😁
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Terraced rice paddies in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, as they turn a golden hue ahead of harvesting on the day of "chubun," the autumn equinox according to the 24 divisions of the year."
en.yna.co.kr/view/PYH2025...
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
@stdrozdowski72.bsky.social
Thank you for your many kindnesses.
May you always have fair winds,
a following sea, and safe harbour.

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September 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I am not satisfied by a life of material comfort,
soft as its comforts are.

I want my life’s mission rather to be,
in the wonderful words of Ken Wilber
a quest to:
transcend the separate self
in a state of non-dual unity consciousness
that is beyond the ego.

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September 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My daughter is an illustrator and fibre artist.
This speaks to her mind and art.
Perhaps it also does to yours.

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September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
DJT gives new meaning to the old phrase:
"Take two aspirin and call me in the morning."

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September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wha's everyone wearing to the rapture today?
I was thinking of walking around saying: "It's a trap!"

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September 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today, I will focus on growing in

awareness
gratitude
compassion
and gentleness.

Image Source: @johnbcaddell.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Screenshot so you don't have to watch.
Harry Enten says in Sep 25,
AOC is closer to frontrunner Newsom
than Bernie was to Clinton in 2014.
Clinton 69 to 2;
Newsom 21 to 12.

Bright moment for us democratic socialists.
Perhaps the Overton Window will shift left
when time comes for DeMAGAfication.
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My task today,
says Epictetus,
is to be engaged constantly
in the regulation of my own will;
how to make it undisturbed,
unrestrained,
uncompelled,
free.

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September 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The old familiar rut.
My dull routines.
Drifting.

Then grows that
readiness...
to bust out.

What are sources of audacity for me?

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September 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"Indian high jumper Sarvesh Kushare competes at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday, September 16."

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September 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Master leads
by emptying people’s minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything they know,
everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.

Tao Te Ching
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September 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
When we become ensconced
in materialist security,
we lose contact with
nature, reality,
wonder, transcendence.
Reducing one’s materialism
and living more in accordance with nature
re-enchants the universe.

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September 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What is mysticism?

1. it’s active, practical, involving the whole self;
2. it’s part of a process of transcendence;
3. it experiences the divine in the universe;
4. it involves the complete remaking of character through an arduous psycho-spiritual process.

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September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Birmingham, England: "Dancers take part in a dress rehearsal of Black Sabbath - The Ballet." 🦇🎶🩰

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September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yeah, sure, eh. 🤬
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Morning Focus

I am programmed by my
emotions,
desires,
aversions.

My task today
is to become aware of these
in my thoughts and actions,
and of where I need to change.

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September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM