Rathi
@ratzest.bsky.social
Jungian/depth psychology, mythology, spiritual ecology, mysticism, mindfulness, philosophy, art, literature, social justice.
Header image: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872) by Vasily Perov.
Header image: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872) by Vasily Perov.
But Father Reason says,
No need to announce the future!
This now is it. This.
Your deepest need and desire
is satisfied by the moment's energy
here in your hand.
Rumi
Coleman Barks translation
No need to announce the future!
This now is it. This.
Your deepest need and desire
is satisfied by the moment's energy
here in your hand.
Rumi
Coleman Barks translation
April 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
But Father Reason says,
No need to announce the future!
This now is it. This.
Your deepest need and desire
is satisfied by the moment's energy
here in your hand.
Rumi
Coleman Barks translation
No need to announce the future!
This now is it. This.
Your deepest need and desire
is satisfied by the moment's energy
here in your hand.
Rumi
Coleman Barks translation
Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
(Rumi, Coleman Barks translation)
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
(Rumi, Coleman Barks translation)
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
(Rumi, Coleman Barks translation)
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
(Rumi, Coleman Barks translation)
I've waited for this bougainville to bloom for years. This year, she is in bloom. It's her way of saying, it takes time — to emerge, to show your beauty, and for you to become who you are. She finds her way into my conversations easily, as if she is a friend, and I love that this is my life.
April 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I've waited for this bougainville to bloom for years. This year, she is in bloom. It's her way of saying, it takes time — to emerge, to show your beauty, and for you to become who you are. She finds her way into my conversations easily, as if she is a friend, and I love that this is my life.
A fluorescent blue butterfly fluttering away, a couple of sparrows appearing in the neighbourhood, new leaves filling up tree branches everywhere, the dance of the sun and moon every day, a pair of bulbuls calling on visitors to come greet them, and the season's first jasmine.
April 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A fluorescent blue butterfly fluttering away, a couple of sparrows appearing in the neighbourhood, new leaves filling up tree branches everywhere, the dance of the sun and moon every day, a pair of bulbuls calling on visitors to come greet them, and the season's first jasmine.
For a much-needed moment of calm and solitude, engulfed by trees, insects, bird sounds, and the wind, to bring myself back to a steady state.
April 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
For a much-needed moment of calm and solitude, engulfed by trees, insects, bird sounds, and the wind, to bring myself back to a steady state.
Witnessed this magic today 💚
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Witnessed this magic today 💚
I got these peppers from a teacher/friend. I just mentioned it to her the other day, how much I loved these peppers. She said, she will bring them for me.
A week has passed since that conversation.
A week has passed since that conversation.
March 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I got these peppers from a teacher/friend. I just mentioned it to her the other day, how much I loved these peppers. She said, she will bring them for me.
A week has passed since that conversation.
A week has passed since that conversation.
The moon is our witness to our darkness and light, as we are hers.
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The moon is our witness to our darkness and light, as we are hers.
Post a photo you took with no context to zen the timeline.
March 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Post a photo you took with no context to zen the timeline.
Evening in the city. My city is a palimpsest of several cities, each one laid on top of another long gone. But the sky has remained the same, and I see the same sky that the ancestors of the city saw. Looking up, in this moment, I am an extension, a portal through time and memory.
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Evening in the city. My city is a palimpsest of several cities, each one laid on top of another long gone. But the sky has remained the same, and I see the same sky that the ancestors of the city saw. Looking up, in this moment, I am an extension, a portal through time and memory.
Read this when you have lost faith in humans: thequietlife.net/p/read-this-...
Courtesy: @susancain.bsky.social
Courtesy: @susancain.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Read this when you have lost faith in humans: thequietlife.net/p/read-this-...
Courtesy: @susancain.bsky.social
Courtesy: @susancain.bsky.social
"Theotokos in the Temple" by Ukrainian artist Kateryna Kuziv.
See more: iconart-gallery.com/en/artists/k...
See more: iconart-gallery.com/en/artists/k...
March 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"Theotokos in the Temple" by Ukrainian artist Kateryna Kuziv.
See more: iconart-gallery.com/en/artists/k...
See more: iconart-gallery.com/en/artists/k...
Courtesy: @do_whatyouwill
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Courtesy: @do_whatyouwill
Two bees sleeping together in a flower.
Courtesy: @theotokosdove
Courtesy: @theotokosdove
February 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Two bees sleeping together in a flower.
Courtesy: @theotokosdove
Courtesy: @theotokosdove
Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon, Athens, from the Northwest (Illuminated Night View), 1869.
Courtesy: @ghostofhellas
Courtesy: @ghostofhellas
February 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon, Athens, from the Northwest (Illuminated Night View), 1869.
Courtesy: @ghostofhellas
Courtesy: @ghostofhellas
Nikolai Yaroshenko, (Николай Ярошенко), 1846 –1898, The Prisoner, 1878.
January 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Nikolai Yaroshenko, (Николай Ярошенко), 1846 –1898, The Prisoner, 1878.
Forest Silence (1917) by John F Carlson who was an expert in painting winter scenes. Read more: www.incollect.com/artists/john...
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Forest Silence (1917) by John F Carlson who was an expert in painting winter scenes. Read more: www.incollect.com/artists/john...
Today, I am a little excited and overwhelmed — I got my first piece of musical instrument. I started my musical journey to support the long journey of individuation and navigate the fear of failure that at times is heavy and unforgiving. Today, this moment is a moment of celebration and gratitude.
January 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today, I am a little excited and overwhelmed — I got my first piece of musical instrument. I started my musical journey to support the long journey of individuation and navigate the fear of failure that at times is heavy and unforgiving. Today, this moment is a moment of celebration and gratitude.
James Hollis on the three basic ways a child would interpret her reality and therefore, her future relationship with life, based on the early experience with her parent(s).
December 24, 2024 at 2:49 AM
James Hollis on the three basic ways a child would interpret her reality and therefore, her future relationship with life, based on the early experience with her parent(s).
"As Jung puts it: 'Mephistopheles is the diabolical aspect of every psychic function that has broken loose from the hierarchy of the total psyche and now enjoys independence and absolute power.'" | Ego and Archetype, Edward Edinger
Art: Faust, Mephistopheles Aloft by Eugène Delacroix
Art: Faust, Mephistopheles Aloft by Eugène Delacroix
December 23, 2024 at 6:43 AM
"As Jung puts it: 'Mephistopheles is the diabolical aspect of every psychic function that has broken loose from the hierarchy of the total psyche and now enjoys independence and absolute power.'" | Ego and Archetype, Edward Edinger
Art: Faust, Mephistopheles Aloft by Eugène Delacroix
Art: Faust, Mephistopheles Aloft by Eugène Delacroix
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 20/20 Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 20/20 Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
December 20, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 20/20 Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 20/20 Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 19/20 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 19/20 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 19/20 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 19/20 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 18/20 Ego and Archetype, Edward F Edinger
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 18/20 Ego and Archetype, Edward F Edinger
December 19, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 18/20 Ego and Archetype, Edward F Edinger
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 18/20 Ego and Archetype, Edward F Edinger
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 17/20 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 17/20 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
December 19, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 17/20 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 17/20 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne