The moment you stop abandoning yourself to please everyone else is the moment life begins to align in ways you never expected. Choose yourself, not out of selfishness, but out of self-respect.
The stars and stripes of our universe 🌟
For America’s 250th birthday, @chandraxray released four new views of the cosmos in red, white, and blue—with data from three of them translated into sound. Check them out: https://t.co/qOPIq0aVQh
There will be more than just fireworks to see in the night sky this month!
You can look forward to these celestial sights in July:
- A lunar-planetary alignment
- A visiting comet
- A good look at Saturn and the Milky Way
Happy skywatching! https://t.co/6EP5GpvAQw
🧵 There’s been quite a few earthquakes making the news lately & we are wishing the best to everyone impacted by them. It may look like more earthquakes are happening than usual but an earthquake happening in Japan or Venezuela doesn’t cause an earthquake in the Philippines or CA
“You are already what you seek”
When I first read that quote I said that sure sounds like soft spiritual bullshit.
Until I actually sat with it.
Advaita means whatever you’re chasing ain’t somewhere else. Peace ain’t hiding in the next job or relationship or big win.
It’s like a fish in the middle of the ocean losing its shit trying to find water. You’re pissed, stressed, blaming everything and everyone around you… then it hits you. You’ve been swimming in it the whole fucking time.
That’s what most of us do with God, truth, peace, the Self. We run around like lunatics trying to become complete, while this is saying you ain’t incomplete. You’re just identified with the wrong shit.
You think you’re the story, the damage, the thoughts in your head, your failures. But underneath all that is the awareness that’s been here the whole time, untouched. You don’t gotta become it.
You just gotta quit pretending you’re something else.
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Shot I captured at Watkins Glenn, NY State, USA.
I taught a patient of mine how to meditate. She learned to still her mind and stay in the present moment. Then she discovered the most beautiful tree. It was growing in front of her house.
What would your life be like if you learned that you are more powerful than you have ever been taught?
Video at https://t.co/lzIAMSRGel
The emerging sciences of quantum biophysics, epigenetics, and fractal geometry have illuminated the mechanics of the mind-body-spirit connection
A research into cat behavior shows that domestic cats regard humans as social peers rather than superiors, often perceiving their owners as large, awkward kittens.
Far from being aloof or defiant, a cat’s apparent indifference stems from a profound interspecies mismatch in social expectations.
As anthrozoologist John Bradshaw explains, cats—unlike dogs—never evolved to recognize humans as dominant leaders or authority figures. Instead, they filter all interactions through an exclusively feline framework. Behaviors like kneading on your lap or licking your hair are not mere displays of affection; they are the same grooming and bonding rituals cats reserve for close kin or pride members. In their eyes, we are simply enormous, somewhat clumsy fellow cats who require inclusion in the group.
This absence of hierarchical deference accounts for cats’ frequent disregard of commands or household rules. Treating us as equals, they follow cat-to-cat social protocols in every encounter. The “gifts” of dead prey on the doorstep or constant shadowing around the home are acts of care toward what they see as a big, furless, rather inept companion.
Recognizing this mindset transforms the human-cat relationship from one based on authority and obedience to one of mutual companionship. It turns out that while many owners believe they have domesticated their cats, the cats themselves are quietly convinced they are patiently tending to their oversized, adopted family members.
[Bradshaw, J. (2013). Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. Basic Books]
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