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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell"

Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Whoever has invented the story has caught the very spirit of Zen - a flower that smiles evoking a smile that flowers." John C.H. Wu on Kasyapa's response to Sakyamuni Buddha picking up a flower

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"It is fitting that Zen should have begun with a flower and a smile. This episode, you may say, is too beautiful to be true. Yet it is too beautiful not to be true. The life of Zen does not depend upon historical truth... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it." - Simone Weil

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

CBT works. But does it work for the reasons it claims? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For "something of a précis" of Maggie Ross' "Silence: A User’s Guide" see: postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/s...

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"And despair, now, is everywhere. Let us not think that our interior solitude consists in the acceptance of defeat. We cannot escape anything by consenting tacitly to be defeated. Despair is an abyss without bottom. Do not think to close it by consenting to it & trying to forget you have consented."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us. When our life feeds on unreality, it must starve. It must therefore die."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

These must be some lesser-known apocrypha, I guess.

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"I beg to urge you everyone: life and death is a grave matter; all things pass quickly away. Each of you must be completely alert; never neglectful, never indulgent."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"social media, that little narcissism machine, the easiest way we have ever had to place ourselves on a pedestal of vanity, propagandise ourselves, is also the mechanism that most efficiently breaks you up" - Peter Pomerantsev

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

... 'Obediently' ... is the refusal to grasp or claim our prejudices, an attempt at possession that gives us an illusory sense of our own omnipotence and creates interior noise that impedes listening"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

... 'Attentively' means not only listening but listening at a level of receptive responsiveness, allowing the words of the other to reach deeply into our hearts so that we may behold, however obliquely, the vast mystery towards which they gesture... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

... 'Faithfully' means releasing our tightly held prejudices and opinions concerning the way the world should work ... Faith is the acknowledgment that there is a larger vision than we can ask or imagine, and the willingness to be taken into it ... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"'How we work out, faithfully, attentively, obediently, what we need to do and say...' [by Rowan Williams] - this is an instruction in learning discretion... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"In every age, religious demagogues - and, in ours, atheistic ones as well - are quick to censure people and situations they not only do not understand but also refuse to understand. This deliberate closing of the mind is not only culpable; it exposes bitter, narrow hearts that lust for power."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

... Silence is not in itself religious, but to express the ineffable joys found in its depths is almost impossible without metaphors that frequently sound religious"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Silence is context and end, beholding the means. In the final analysis, this is all we need to know. This silence i not the absense of noise; it is the vast interior landscape that invites us to stillness. At its heart, in our heart, it is the Other... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"I look towards silence. It is not, as I had heard, a peak with natural footholds and the crampons left by better climbers Contrary to what they say there is no map (they may be speaking of another place) there is only surrender." "Inside Out" by Pauline Matarasso

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The myth number 3: It has an aim... 😉

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Tan-Zan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away. The cards read: I am departing from this world. This is my last announcement. Tan-Zan. July 27, 1892."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

... throwing yourself into the will of God, or into acceptance of the causal factors of the universe. It is giving up tantrums." Marsha Linehan on Gerald May's willingness

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

... and even some you could win. It is letting go of being right, even when you are right. It is when you do things you might not want to do, but you do them because they are needed. With willingness, you accept with grace what is happening. You could say it is... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Willingness is about opening yourself to what is. It is about becoming one with the universe, participating in it, doing what is needed in the moment. It is doing the dishes when needed, helping someone up who has fallen, letting go of battles you will never win... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"Only silence is deep enough to hold everything" - Siter Florence Leone Poch, OSF (1929-2024) (as quoted by Marsha Linehan)

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

... metaphors that frequently sound religious"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"silence is not the absence of noise; it is the vast interior landscape that invites us to stillness. At its heart, in our heart, it is the Other. Silence is not in itself religious, but to express the ineffable joys found in its depths is almost impossible without... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness ... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words" - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Let your mercy spill On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will To make us well" www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Xc...

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The Webb Sisters - If It Be Your Will (Official Live in London 2008)

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

... non-stealing is the obvious precept to be expressed in certain particular circumstances, if one finds oneself in a Robin Hood-type of particular circumstance, it could be stealing that is appropriately expressed"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Zen Buddhism on the Aristotelian phronesis: "In this ever-changing, dynamic reality in which we live our lives, circumstances are different from moment to moment. This, of course, determines whether, for example, non-stealing or non-lying is called for. And although... 👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

... 'Marsha, if you enter a convent, the only serious question to be asked will be "Will they kick you out first, or will you walk out first?" because you’ll never make it in a convent.' Anselm was likely right. I was not cut out to be a nun."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"I have Anselm to thank for a second piece of advice, too. It was more of a statement. I had contemplated becoming a nun, which is not so very surprising for a Catholic girl. Mother would have been ecstatic; she often urged me to go down that path. When I told Anselm this, he said... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages. Guard the image of man for it is the image of God." - Thomas Merton

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The registration is still open for an Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS) talk by Lisa Osbeck. Please feel invited to register and participate! To register: forms.gle/pd6bKWFVcrxEn8KS8

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

...as soon as it begins to expose this wound; they move on instead to some spiritual entertainment that will maintain distraction"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual path before we get some sense of the wound of the human condition, and this is precisely why not a few abandon a contemplative practice like meditation... 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

... He probably thought he was being honest, and, given my history, he had a point. But he didn’t know me, or my determination. This dynamic became something of a pattern in my life: people telling me what I couldn’t do, and me thinking, 'You just wait and see. I’ll show you.'"

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Marsha Linehan's 'hold my beer' moment: "I should not have been surprised at my father’s response. Almost before I had finished describing my plan, to move and find a job to support myself, he said sharply, 'You won’t be able to get a job in Chicago.' 👇👇👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Source: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"hunting for so-called ‘religious experiences’ is not only futile, it is a form of hubris" - Maggie Ross (Martha Reeves) Source: postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/s...

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

... in this book are about love that is revealed in the most unexpected places."

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

... experiences ... Having said that, it is also true that memory distills: sometimes what we are permitted to recall reveals more truth than a simple listing of so-called facts, or efforts to be 'objective.' And it is on this unconscious discernment I have tended to rely, for the stories in... 👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"All the same, I hesitate to say this book is nonfiction. Indeed, I begin to wonder if we rightly label any book nonfiction, because perception and memory, the filters of dying and living, pain and joy, hurting and healing, all conspire to make liars out of those rash enough to write about their...👇

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. - John 1.5

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

"active acceptance requires careful observation, openness to experience & tolerance to all that life presents. Acceptance is the developed capacity to fully embrace whatever is in the present moment. It requires a spacious mind, an open heart & strength to bear one's experience"

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