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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion - Tool

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance. This was a strategy, and didn’t work at all. - Leonard Cohen

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Desire is no light thing. - Anne Carson

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? - Bear Grylls

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you find me charming, it means that right now you’re in a good mood, nothing more. - Anthony de Mello

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. - Annie Dillard

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If someone said to you, "You can stop suffering. You can really stop suffering completely, right here and right now. All you have to do is give up everything you think. You have to give up your opinions, you have to give up your beliefs, you have to even give up believing in your own name.

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “joy that the world cannot give” (John 14:27) always comes as a gift to those who wait for it, expect it and make room for it inside themselves. - Fr. Richard Rohr

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All actions are spontaneous, you’ve just made up a story that you exist and are doing them. - Lama Lena

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By humiliation alone can Saints be made. - St. Thérèse de Lisieux

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured. - Charlotte Joko Beck

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it. - Byron Katie

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself;

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I need.' Maybe they are the same. - Sylvia Boorstein

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience. - Tara Brach

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. - Jack Kornfield

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin' that ride to nowhere We'll take that ride - Talking Heads

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. - Ramana Maharshi

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My oh my, what a wonderful day We're having, we're having Why, oh why, are we looking for a way Outside it, outside it - Punch Brothers

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. - Marianne Williamson

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Death is the great liberator thinly disguised as our worst fear. - Joan Tollifson

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation. - Thomas Keating

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You'll rescue me, right? In the exact same way they never did I'll be happy, right? When your healing powers kick in You'll complete me, right? Then my life can finally begin I'll be worthy, right? Only when you realize the gem I am?

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything. - Norm Macdonald

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't just do something, sit there! - Sylvia Boorstein

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It’s not something we generate; it’s something out there waiting to be discovered. - Michael Pollan

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All fear is ultimately fear of no-self. - Jed McKenna

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself. - Byron Katie

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If not now, when? - Eckhart Tolle

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not. - Uncle Iroh

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The more we allow ourselves to be with ourselves, the more we find that we are not someone in particular. - James Low

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. - Khalil Gibran

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When you lose small mind, you free your life - System of a Down

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And then the light softened, diffused, enveloping her in the peace that comes from knowing your own powerlessness. - Kamila Shamsie

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are. - W. Timothy Gallwey

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Philosophy is basically thinking about thinking. Which sounds like a waste of time, because it is. - Philomena Cunk

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is not my teaching or anybody's teaching, but this is the only thing: You are trying to understand something through an instrument which is not the instrument to understand. - U.G. Krishnamurti

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the main weakness of beings: beings are devoid of security. There is no safe refuge from old age, disease & death. Look at other beings, look at animals, and most of all, look at yourself. - Sayadaw U Pandita

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The only “method” is not to prepare the way, but to prepare ourselves. The sages of all traditions have called it the “purification of the heart,” an interior pilgrimage. - Raimon Panikkar

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think most of the spiritual life is really a matter of relaxing — letting go, ceasing to cling, ceasing to insist on our own way, ceasing to tense ourselves up for this or against that. - Beatrice Bruteau

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. - James Finley

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it. - Ramana Maharshi

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? - Kabir

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. - U.G. Krishnamurti

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grostic.bsky.social @grostic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The flame of love can never dwindle unless we insist on confining it to the past. - Andrea Raynor

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