Sign in

Dr. David Pecotić

@djp1974.bsky.social
1.6K followers 1.1K following 17K posts

Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #synchronicity, #poetry, #therapy ♋ #mystic, #poet, #existential #counsellor (according to some) "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death." Book a session: linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pecotic

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13h
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
wbaltv.com
Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
42650301
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11h
If you live right, the coincidences will build up for you in unexpected, surprising and beneficial ways. - #JohnLilly
020
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
Nature is perhaps interested in there being few men on the right path. - #Gurdjieff
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
If you wish, you can. Without wishing you never can. Wish is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. Of course I speak of conscious wish; and with conscious wish, everything comes. - #CSNott, 'The Teachings of #Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey'
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
They arrive and others arrive, and then they go, and the others go. Day and night, a constant traffic. Where do they come from? Where do they go? Does it mean anything? Nothing, nothing, nothing. - #Lalla / #LalDed
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
𝑫𝙞𝒎𝙞𝒅𝙞𝒖𝙢 𝙛𝒂𝙘𝒕𝙞, 𝒒𝙪𝒊 𝒄𝙤𝒆𝙥𝒊𝙩, 𝒉𝙖𝒃𝙚𝒕; 𝙨𝒂𝙥𝒆𝙧𝒆 𝒂𝙪𝒅𝙚, 𝒊𝙣𝒄𝙞𝒑𝙚. He who has begun is half done; dare to know; begin! - #Horace, 𝑬𝙥𝒊𝙨𝒕𝙪𝒍𝙖𝒆 (Book 1, Epistle 2, lines 40–41)
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
What #counselling and #therapy actually looks like:
020
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
nonchalantly pissing off the side of the road soaking the young weeds - #Santoka
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - #ThomasPaine
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
#Mysticism, #Gnosis, #Magic — or Death! - ' #MeditationsontheTarot,’ Letter XIII ‘Death’
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
What #counselling and #therapy actually look like:
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. - #Wittgenstein
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 15h
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #KurtVonnegut:
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 16h
Having good friends is the whole of the holy life. - Siddhārtha Gautama #Buddha, ‘ #MeghiyaSutta’
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 16h
#JEANGEBSER ON THE WORK "All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves.
100
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 16h
The patient becomes what he really is, not what she should be, or would like to be. All neuroses are failures of presence, warts and all. - #EdgarLevenson
000
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I have space for new clients who wish to explore #counselling #therapy that is person-centred and geared toward existential and spiritual issues and aspects of life. Sessions are online unless you're a local. If this sounds like you, either DM me or contact me via the link: linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pec...
linktr.ee
Dr. David Pecotic, Ph.D | Instagram | Linktree
Prince of Serendipity, daimon-wrangler & existential counsellor– at your service
1256
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 23h
REVERSING By #Aryadeva In the beginning one reverses non-virtue. In the middle one reverses the view of a self. In the end one reverses all views. Those who know this way are wise.
Aryadeva
021
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those who regard worldly affairs as an obstacle to their training do not realize that there is nothing such as worldly affairs apart from the Way. - #Dogen, ‘ #Shobogenzo,’ 5th May 1243, The Four Ways of a #Bodhisattva
Those who regard worldly affairs as an obstacle to their training do not realize that there is nothing such as worldly affairs apart from the Way.

- #Dogen, ‘ #Shobogenzo,’ 5th May 1243, The Four Ways of a #Bodhisattva
020
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THE FOUR QUESTIONS By #Lalla Who is awake and who asleep? What is this lake that is continually oozing back into the earth? What can a human being offer to God? What do we most deeply want?
110
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again. - #AnselmKiefer
030
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #AnselmKiefer:
What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.

Anselm Kiefer
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Idk who else needs to hear this rn other than my my own ruined oft-doubt-filled heart but:
What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.


Anselm Kiefer
161
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. - Igor #Stravinsky
031
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Only if you have the courage to be ruthlessly honest with yourself will the veils of illusion be removed, allowing you to meet the Self of your dreams. – #MarionWoodman, ‘Leaving My Father’s House’
030
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all day long meeting demons meeting buddhas - #Santoka
041
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Earth contains all things, in an earthly manner, which Heaven comprehends celestially. - #Proclus
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The look by which I know him is the very look by which he knows me. - #MeisterEckhart
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness. - #Lalla / #LalDed
000
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
9420921300
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 04/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Mesmerizing Hands Illusion Loop
ALT: Mesmerizing Hands Illusion Loop
033
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
Louise @louise747.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@djp1974.bsky.social
111
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
Louise @louise747.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@djp1974.bsky.social Injustice....one of the most difficult things to bear. I can't imagine the frustration, the helplessness, the fear, that this girl is facing. 😔
011
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Awareness, free and independent, is the cause of the performance of everything. - Rājānaka #Kṣemarāja (late 10th to early 11th century; nondual Śaiva Tantrika, Kashmir: disciple of Abhinavagupta), #Pratyabhijñā-hṛdayam ('The Heart of the Teachings on Recognition') Sutra One
Awareness, free and independent, 
is the cause of the performance of everything.

- Rājānaka Kṣemarāja (late 10th to early 11th century; nondual Śaiva Tantrika, Kashmir: disciple of Abhinavagupta), Pratyabhijñā-hṛdayam ('The Heart of the Teachings on Recognition') Sutra One
041
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Awareness, free and independent, is the cause of the performance of everything. - #Kṣemarāja
052
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Poems hide. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. - #NaomiShihabNye, ‘Valentine for Ernest Mann’
020
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every body responds to all that happens in the universe, so that he who saw all could read in each one what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened and what will happen. - #Leibniz
020
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Whoever wants to be lightning must know, for a long time, how to remain a cloud. - #RaimundoPanikkar
static.klipy.com
Lightning Storm at Night
Alt: Lightning Storm at Night
131
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. - #PaulClaudel
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Begin. To begin is half the work. If half still remains, begin again. Soon you will have finished. - #Ausonius, ‘Epigrams’ LXXXI
021
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. - #Rumi
022
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You’re welcome
150
Reposted by Dr. David Pecotić
jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
theconversation.com/the-joy-of-s...
theconversation.com
The joy of song: where songbirds came from and why we should listen to them
Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia.
1165
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Yes’ doesn’t quite catch it ‘No’ is not quite right Between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ My true guru hides. - #Kabir
040
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The mind made you scamper You ran, as far as the mind could fare Tired of its flight the mind grew still And the object was right there. - #Kabir
010
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Within a dream this is the dream you express. - #Dogen
001
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Poetry reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purged from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures us from the wonder of our being. - #PercyByssheShelley
030
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is merely theory to our ordinary consciousness can be the direct cognition of real facts on a higher level. - #MauriceNicoll
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the understanding of the #unconscious we must see our thoughts as events, as phenomena. - #CarlJung
000
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. - #SimoneWeil
000