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transmissions of joy and peace

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may you be a transmission of joy and peace

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@EvaKatz_ any faves?

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met a lady who said she had never experienced unconditional love growing up, and taught it to herself by listening to love songs and pretending god was singing to her. her life got immeasurably better

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@smthingsprtual same! enjoy

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@junemarie ah, that they are. get well papa june 🙏

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@tasshinfogleman annie ernaux

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i want to know what its like to experience unconditional love and total detachment, love flowing freely as its meant to

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if you want to improve your life, listen to love songs as if god is singing directly to you

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geoguessr but with dappled light

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today is a good day to bathe your ideas in biochemical reality

[★ @thematrixwizard]

a pure heart is an open door for miracles

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life is for joy
love is a conversation that never ends
the brain is made for the body, not the other way around

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@richardludlow be hear now also fun

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do it for joy.

makes you untouchable and makes everyone else look like they're trying too hard

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Joy is a competitive super power.

Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16.
She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport.

She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist.

Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable.

But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love.

She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022.

Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said:

“Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.”

One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment.

But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense.

It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!”

Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do.

Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there.

She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport.

And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it.

Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring.

But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard.

What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

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the hard part is letting something this ugly sit on my wall. but the more i look at it the more language i see

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always been intimidated by abstract painting. silly reason to avoid it. now doing it anyway

so far its like speaking with no vocabulary, letting noise emerge, tuning into sense making capacities, waiting for signal, faint as it may be

not far off from open awareness practice

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always been intimidated by abstract painting. silly reason to avoid it. now doing it anyway

so far its like speaking with no vocabulary, letting noise emerge, tuning into sense making capacities, waiting for signal, faint as it may be

not far off from open awareness practice

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relatable king

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

Josh O' Connor was fired from being an altar boy “for smiling too much”:

"I was always brilliant at it. I was an altar boy and I was fired for smiling too much. I think my mum said to the priest, "He's smiling in the presence of the lord". But I was smiling because I could see my brothers and it was funny."

(Source: https://t.co/Fo53tQwDoF )

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in suffering we long for god, in loving we find him