'Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire…

When the ego (the false self generated by our anxieties, fears, grandiosity, etc.) becomes our public voice, the true self is rendered mute. Conversations with the ego are almost useless. Conversations with the ego also tend to provoke responses from the ego – “like calls to…

Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

'Everyone’s an infinitely loved, broken person in a fleeting, often not-so-fair, gorgeous, lovely, unexplainable world.'

Ever seen a total solar #eclipse from space?

Here is our astronauts' view from the International Space Station

Polish mountaineer scaled his country's highest peak, Rysy, which is 2,499 metres (8,199 feet) high and found a cat.

Accidental art - a thread 🧵

1. A rock-created bird shaped chip on a car windshield

Thanks to Trump/ism, we are entering, or rather opening and deepening, a period of our collective dark night of the soul, which is a prolonged confrontation with our shadow. This journey to Hades must be undertaken to learn who we are.
thirdfactor.org/the-journey-ba… via Third Factor Magazine

Over 1,500 years ago, this church was hewn into a vertical cliff face 650 feet above ground - and it's still in use today.

A thread of churches in astonishing places... 🧵

This is your annual reminder that not all the little green things that pop up in the spring have flowers. #StreetArt #ChalkArt #anamorphosis #groundbreaking #dragon #EarlyRisersClub

As Kazimierz Dabrowski, one of the world's wisest psychologists and psychiatrists (he was both) said,

'Our general inability to recognize the psychological type of psychopaths causes immense suffering, mass terror, violent oppression, genocide and the decay of civilization.'

This painting is over 500 years old, but looks like it could have been made yesterday.

It might seem like an acid trip - it's actually the greatest warning about sin ever painted... (thread) 🧵

Elizabeth Mika George Conway I am really excited & humbled to be asked by the Democratic Party here in Maine to run for State Senate! I look forward to more of your insightful posts during my journey & beyond!

Because it's Friday:

Normal aging-related memory decline =/= dementia.

In Poland, the tradition of serving 12 dishes on Christmas Eve carries profound symbolism 🍽️

Originally representing gratitude for each month of the year, it has evolved to signify the twelve Apostles, echoing the unity and sacredness of the Last Supper shared by Jesus and his…

If you need some extra holiday mood, watch Tommee Profitt's spectacular THE BIRTH OF A KING: LIVE IN CONCERT (or, as my son calls it, Call of Duty Christmas) youtu.be/urmooOy_78c?si…

Loudest Silent Night ever.. 😂

Yesterday’s sunset in Christmassy Kraków!

The way they walk away together.. 😊

“Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.”