#meditation moment

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Remembrances

Companion-piece to this Cody piece

[platoapproved]

— A flaccid full-length play based on nothing other than the superficial observations of the vampire Sam, his meditation on vampiric existence and enduring. — Strange, I remember you racing back from rehearsals to tell me how ambitious the conceit was.

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I like about Leo is that he’s honestly really chill? It’s easy to remember the moments where he’s being obnoxious or excitable but I feel like most of the time he’s incredibly “go with the flow” and has an overall affable demeanor.

[enter-the-bogman]

Reading through the Tortall books in publication order is funny because you start with Alanna “the village healing woman taught me all she knew” going off to become a knight, and end with Numair “world’s most powerful mage” as young Arram Draper first learning magic at the Carthaki university. Because of the 40 intervening years and five(?) different series further developing the Tortall universe, the magic system is now SO much more complex.  Arram is learning an elementally-based, heavily theory-dependent form of magic where conceptual power is applied to physical objects or energy constructs. His teachers make him develop skills in non-magical areas like juggling, jewelry making, and gardening so eventually they can safely guide him through complicated applications of magic. In comparison, Alanna complains that Duke Roger is spending too much time on theory in order to prevent her and her peers from learning “actual magic” and becoming his rivals. And then she throws purple light at things until they explode or she passes out! We also learn from Arram’s misadventures that most of “magic” is creating methods of applying, storing, and accessing power so the user doesn’t drain their own life force and pass out or die. Alanna uses NONE of these techniques; instead, she pulls her magic directly out of her own life force, thinks about what she wants it to do, and hopes she reaches that goal before draining herself. She even (sometimes) factors in the impact of magically draining herself of energy while attempting tasks that require both magical and physical endurance (such as when deciding how much magic to spend warming herself when making her blizzard hike to claim the Dominion Jewel.)

For one thing, this makes Alanna insanely powerful. In In the Hand of The Goddess, she breaks open Roger’s magically locked door (presumably designed by Roger himself-- an immensely strong and well-trained sorcerer) by shoving her own magic into it until it MELTS. This builds an Alanna who decided magical theory was useless at age 12 because she has an immense access to magical potential energy, and who never learns the basic life-preserving models of magic usage that are taught in intro-level classes. She doesn’t have an interest in learning more sophisticated forms of magic, except in healing, which she cared about enough to learn non-magically. So when she heals, she uses magic as a guide or a supplement, rather than depending on it and then draining herself.  Since she isn’t attempting complex magic, most of the time the limitations of drawing directly from her own life force doesn’t impact her that much. The things she does magically all have much more efficient alternatives, but they require an understanding of magical theory and ability to store energy that Alanna never learned! If she wants to do larger spells, she just keeps feeding energy into it until it breaks or she does. 

The intervening series and Numair’s story makes Alanna’s simultaneously more and less believable. It now makes sense why everyone with even a slight understanding of Alanna’s type of Gift gets angry at times and tells her she’s using magic irresponsibly. (Before, we only understood Alanna’s side of the argument: “Well, I didn’t die and it worked, so calm down.” !!!) The fact that she never actually dies and only rarely is seriously harmed through her own magic use now requires some suspension of disbelief!

[nobeerreviews]

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

(Warszawa, Poland)

[faronmckenzie]

Sometimes you’re so focused on the future that you don’t realise you’re in the middle of exactly what you used to pray for.

[lxdymaria]

adventuring gear + camp clothes

[nonbinarydeity]

There is a world within you, and a world around you. These worlds are not separate; everything is connected with you, and you can actually feel this interconnected nature, as if you were feeling your own body.

When I started experiencing this, I was trying to work with energy. What I found instead was a vast emptiness, a spacious experience of the world around me. At the time, I wasn't sure what it was! Now I understand, this is what we ARE: stillness, spaciousness, emptiness, here and now.

It might be difficult at first, but you can do this too! Feel into your body. Feel the way things are tangible to you within this space. Ask yourself "is this really all I am? Where do 'I' end?" Then, as if you were feeling into your own body, look around the room and FEEL the things around you, without touching them.

There is a tangible experience of stillness, of "non-experience" within the world around you. You can FEEL the emptiness of the outside world. It feels like nothing. But it is TANGIBLE and REAL.

I truly believe that this is a part of ourselves that we have been taught to disregard. We are taught to think we are only our minds and bodies, but how could that be when we can feel beyond the sensations of the body, and into the stillness of the world? We are One with everything, and it is not hard to experience it for yourself!

Can you be curious about this? Can you experience this every day, for long enough that you begin to wake up out of your limited ideas of being a "someone" in time and space? You ARE space; time is an illusion making up a construct of being only a person, but we are EVERYTHING and ALL AT ONCE. We are here, we are now.

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

nothing lasts forever :)

[touchlikethesun]

kuroo's an asshole and gets people riled up on purpose for funsies, but he's also genuinely a very caring guy and tries his best to help and encourage people.

tsukki's an asshole, and if he doesn't like you he will laugh as you run off a cliff. if he does like you, he'll laugh at you for being thick, but he'll stop you before you can truly hurt yourself. (bonus secret soft side can be unlocked, but watch out)

oikawa is an asshole, but only because he's keeping up an act to protect himself - and to make others laugh. when the act drops, he's shockingly serious and sincere no trace of assholerey to be found.

kags isn't an asshole at all, he's just incredibly straightforward, and people constantly mistake his bluntness as him being a dick on purpose.

most people get fooled by suga's outward appearance and think he's a nice guy just so sweet, but that's just because they aren't paying attention. make no mistake his asshole streak runs dangerously strong.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Context: Transporter Accident Species Swap Kathryn. C'mon. Patreon | Ko-fi

Episode where Janeway and Tuvok have their species swapped by an accident or entity and while everyone's figuring out how to undo it they expect Tuvok to be the one acting different but he's generally the same* meanwhile Janeway's newly Vulcan brain is terrorizing her with nightmares and violence 24/7. *He has trouble with his human body more than any emotions. Like, he keeps burning himself on things he'd normally touch without thinking. He can't stay up and stay focused as long as he normally would (two days straight) and he isn't as strong as he was before. Anyway, Janeway's sort of suffering with both. She has telepathic abilities that would be normal for a Vulcan of her age and this along with the intrusive thoughts and overwhelming emotion are...a lot. Tuvok: Have you tried meditating? Janeway: I'll rip your throat out. Sorry. Sorry. I've tried. Tuvok: Allow me to assist you. Janeway and Tuvok have a conversation about how she's not a bad person and Tuvok has to struggle with and control these sorts of intrusive, violent thoughts all the time. What makes someone a bad person? To what extent are someone's thoughts 'them'? What does a 'true self' mean? Basically Tuvok's like "These Human emotions have literally nothing on me" meanwhile Janeway's getting the shit kicked out of her - DAMN! These Vulcan emotions have hands! They also retain their personalities because they're still the same people. Janeway doesn't suddenly become stoic & logical and Tuvok doesn't suddenly become more outgoing. Tuvok also does not immediately turn into 100-year-old dust because it's a star trek episode and certain things are handwaved. In the end Janeway's like "Well that was absolute hell but in some ways it was interesting to get an up close and personal look into the Vulcan mind and I feel closer to my good friend Tuvok!" whereas Tuvok learned that he actually likes rum raisin ice cream. The B plot of this episode is that there's a certain light that keeps flickering in sickbay and everyone keeps passing off the task of fixing it so eventually the doc tries to fix it himself but he ends up causing a black out (which effects the A plot) and at the very end of the episode Harry's like "THERE. It's fixed."

[kindnessoverperfection]

ADHD really does put everything at equal levels of importance, huh? Like I'll have an email I need to write that'll take maybe 10 minutes, and getting that done will alleviate 6 months of stress. Then I'll notice a sock on the floor I need to put away. Then I'll get the strong conviction that it's up to me to cure cancer. And my brain will tell me that I need to do all of them at once, start and finish them all in the time span of 0 seconds, and my executive dysfunction will throw up its hands and do none of the above.

[momentsbeforemass]

Intrusive thoughts

“What do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?”

This is the heart of a beautiful question I received from someone who’s thinking about becoming Christan. Specifically, a Catholic Christian. And they’re starting to pray the Rosary.

They’ve already figured out that the Rosary is meant to help you be present with God. It’s Christian meditation. To make a quiet place inside us to just be with God.

Something a lot of cradle Catholics don’t know.

They’re having problems with intrusive thoughts. It’s frustrating. It feels like the opposite of a quiet place to just be with God.

Something everyone of us who prays the Rosary knows all too well.

So what do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?

I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I can tell you what I do. And it depends on the thought.

If it’s small potatoes. Something I just remembered. Or something I need to do. Or an email I need to return.

I just jot it down on my phone. Then I can let go of it. Because I know it won’t get lost.

What if it’s not small potatoes? What if it keeps coming back? What if it’s something I’m really wrestling with?

Maybe it’s a relationship that’s struggling or a health issue that’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a job search that’s gone cold or financial problems that keep growing. Or anything else that’s weighing on your heart.

Whatever it is, that’s what you need to be talking with God about.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, it creates a place for you to be with God – about what’s weighing on your heart?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Be with God, about what’s weighing on your heart.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, you never even finish the first decade – and the Lord’s Prayer trails off into pouring your heart out to God about the stone on your soul?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Pour your heart out to God about the stone on your soul.

If that is the Rosary that you need to pray in this moment, then that is how you should pray.

Whatever it is, share it with God. Let God be there for you.

Don’t waste your time trying to sort things out so you can have quiet time with God. Do it with God.

Pray as you are, not how you think you should be.

“We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” - C.S. Lewis

Today’s Readings

[sidewalkchemistry]

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[usefulquotes7]

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” - Buddha