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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

-Eckhart Tolle

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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

-Rumi

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Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle

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Solitude

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

~ Hermann Hesse

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Meditation is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on. After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you, and that’s because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. Then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality. There's so much talk about the mechanics of happiness - psychiatry and pills, positive thinking and ideology - but I really think the mechanism is there. All you have to do is get quiet for a moment.

Leonard Cohen

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AI nonsense strikes again! This is how the Richat Structure really looks.

The Richat Structure, also known as "The Eye of the Sahara".

Located in Mauritania, the structure is about 50 km in diameter. It was initially thought to be the result of an impact event because large meteors typically produce circular features on Earth's surface. But geologic studies have revealed that it is actually an uplifted geologic dome, also known as a domed anticline.

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"Once you get it, it is just it." Zen Proverb

I've been staring at this for way too long.

I'm trying to figure out what "IT" is.

All of these things are distinct and mostly unrelated.

I suppose spells and prayer could have some overlap. I'm not sure what manifestation means in this context. I'm an atheist and I don't relate prayer or spells or quantum physics to the placebo effect.

Is "IT"... confusion?

I think no one can deny this is confusing as fuck.