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For the conditioned soul seeking liberation from material captivity and the repeated cycle of birth, disease, old age, and death.
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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo's top cardinal in the United States enrages MAGA by calling for ICE to be defunded because it's a "lawless organization” engaged in the "machinery of death."

The Catholic Church has become one of Trump's most formidable enemies...

“Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?” Cardinal Joseph Tobin asked of the congregants at an interfaith prayer vigil.

Not content to simply engage in rhetoric, the cardinal urged Catholics to contact their lawmakers and demand that they oppose any new funding for the paramilitary group.

"How will you say 'no?' How will you say 'no' to violence?" he asked. "How will you say 'no' this week when an appropriations bill is going to be considered in Congress? Will you contact your congressional representatives, the senators and representatives from your district? Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can't be separated, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?"

According to Christopher Hale of the "Letters from Leo" substack, Tobin's comments "mark the first time an American cardinal has so directly urged defunding a federal agency." Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken in his criticisms of the Trump's regimes brutal treatment of migrants and has urged the American Catholic Church to speak out more forcefully.

Unlike the far-right Evangelicals who constitute Trump's MAGA base and who bray for more violence and state-sponsored bigotry even as they profess their own self-righteousness, Cardinal Tobin espoused the true message of Jesus Christ.

He drew upon the parable of the Good Samaritan, which urges Christians to show mercy and compassion for their neighbors regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion.

Tobin stated that "one way that we say ‘no’" to ICE's brutality is to focus on their victims.

"One way that we say 'no' is that we mourn, we do not celebrate death, and, what is probably worse, we do not pretend it doesn't happen. We say names. We pray for the dead," the cardinal said. "We mourn for a world, a country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered."

"How will you scrawl your answer on the wall?" Tobin asked, referring to a novel called "Bread and Wine" in which a character asks a priest how best to resist fascism. He tells her that fascists fear the person who is brave enough to write "No" on the wall in a public square.

"How will you help restore a culture of life in the midst of death?" Tobin concluded.

Please ❤️ and share to thank the cardinal for speaking out!

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

Burn my body and scatter my limbs, but spare my heart—
for it is no longer mine;
You dwell within it.

— Ibn al-Fāriḍ

[Always keep smiling @k_india111]

अच्छे कर्म और शुद्ध विचार दूर तक पहुंचते है,इसी लिए अच्छाई करो बिना किसी अपेक्षा के,अच्छाई खुद ब खुद फल देगी,जैसे फूल सबको महकाता है,वैसे ही आपके सदगुण भी आपके जीवन को सुगंधित करेंगे

धम्म प्रभात 🙏 नमोबुद्धाय

#GodMorningTuesday #RepublicDayIndia

[Spiritual Sky @JFave5]

"Indeed there is no higher possible gain for embodied souls forced to wander throughout the material world
than the Supreme Lord's sankirtana movement, by which one can attain the supreme peace and free oneself from the cycle of repeated birth and death."☆
SB 11.5.37

[SRKPASHRAMAM🇮🇳 @srkpashramam]

What does a man become by realizing God? Does he grow two horns? No, what happens is that he develops discrimination between the real and unreal, obtains spiritual consciousness, and goes beyond life and death. God is realized in spirit.

HOLY MOTHER SRI SARADA DEVI

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

"The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Swami Easwarapriyananda🇮🇳 @swamieaswara]

There are different ways to reach the Lord. As many faiths, so many paths. It’s like going to the Kali temple on different roads. Even so, some paths are pure, while others are dirty. One must take a pure path.

BHAGAWAN SRI RAMAKRISHNA

[Indo Buddhist Heritage Forum @indobuddhisthf]

“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law.”
— Dhammapada 1.5

[Spiritual Sky @JFave5]

Newsom says he’ll investigate claims TikTok is censoring anti-Trump content

https://t.co/dW8svINLDb

[Spiritual Sky @JFave5]

https://t.co/IbroJ4JmDM

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.

Please share this far and wide...

"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.

"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."

"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.

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[heine kapp @HeineKapp]

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”
Psalms 91:2

[Swami Easwarapriyananda🇮🇳 @swamieaswara]

Thoughtless words, nondiscriminative actions, anger, and impatience always create problems.

MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

[Always keep smiling @k_india111]

समय का महत्व Value of Time
समय सबसे कीमती संसाधन है
जो एक बार चला जाए तो लौटकर नहीं आता
हर पल हमें कुछ सिखाने आता है
पर हम अक्सर उसे हल्के में ले लेते हैं
जो समय की कद्र करना सीख जाता है
वही अपने जीवन को सही दिशा देता है

नमो बुद्धाय

#GodMorningSunday #MSGBhandara

[Ramanajyothi @Searchof_WhoamI]

People often misunderstand samadhi. Bhagavan told the story of a yogi who spent hundreds of years in a trance beside the river Ganges, whose first thought on awakening was for some water he had requested before entering the trance. The thoughts had resumed, so the trance was useless.

Real attainment, said the Maharshi, was to be fully conscious,
to be aware of people and one's surroundings,
to move among them all,
yet not to merge one's consciousness in the environment,
but to retain an inner independent awareness of That.

This is the highest, not sitting in a trance, which merely halts the mind. The mind must be destroyed entirely, not merely arrested.
~~
Conscious Immortality

@davidfrawleyved @k_bhairav
@truthalone

[ISKCON London Radha-Krishna Temple @iskconlondon]

Listen to the conversation:
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[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

Knowledge and love are thus revealed as the two cosmic forces which are apparently separate in nature but which spring from the same potency and source.

Giordano Bruno ✨💫

[Swami Easwarapriyananda🇮🇳 @swamieaswara]

Do understand that you are destined for enlightenment. Co-operate with your destiny, don’t go against it, don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfil itself. All you have to do is to give attention to the obstacles created by the foolish mind.

SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

[Spiritual Sky @JFave5]

"Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries to be happy in the material world, centering his interests around home, which is based on sexual intercourse and which brings him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than a foolish animal."◇
SB 5.5.7

[Self-Realization Fellowship @srfyogananda]

On April 18, 1926, Paramahansa Yogananda led an audience of thousands in the art of devotional chanting he brought from India. Though unfamiliar with the practice, the audience at Carnegie Hall was swept up in the chanting’s universal power and appeal. For one hour and twenty-five minutes, thousands of souls joined their voices in unity, moved by the deep spiritual transformation they experienced.

This April, monks of Self-Realization Fellowship will lead an evening of music, chanting, and meditation at this iconic venue — an opportunity to experience the sacred inspiration Paramahansa Yogananda first shared with his Western audiences a century ago.

Join us April 18, 2026, for an evening that bridges eras, hearts, and worlds. We invite you to learn more and reserve your seats: https://t.co/gmPupnjAPs

#Yogananda #SelfRealizationFellowship #kirtan #DevotionalChanting #event #CarnegieHall