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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Invitation for the @actionhappiness.bsky.social six-week Happiness Habits course. We start on Oct. 18, 2026, Bengaluru (online). More details at: actionforhappiness.org/course/happi... And remember: No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"...in short, that one learns love not by instruction, but by being loved ." | Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, Ashley Montague

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Invitation for Happiness Habits (Bangalore, online) We start on Oct. 18, 2026. More details can be found on: actionforhappiness.org/course/happi...

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Happiness Habits: Bangalore | Action for Happiness

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Everyone comes to the Lodhi Gardens to relax.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another photo from the Faroe Islands, taken in Jun 2019. We spent a week there, and mostly the weather was like this - and apparently often is - rainy and foggy. Still pretty cool scenery :) #FaroeIslands

A misty, atmospheric shot of a long drop waterfall across the far side of a bay. The foreground is the edge of a grassy clifftop and the sea below is a nice emerald green. There is a mountain hidden by the low cloud.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Seamus Heaney on #hope: History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The withdrawing of our projections is lonesome work, but worth the effort. It's such a relief when we stop projecting the gods and goddesses onto other people, making them objects of worship. ~Marion Woodman

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Rilke on the poetry of everyday: "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place." | Letters to a Young Poet

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Jung on individuation: "Nature herself demands a death and a rebirth." | The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (CW Volume 9, Part 1)

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The moon knows your untold story. Breathe.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"All the branches of the tall trees which lined the mall were gay with little light green leaves and the sunlight slanted through them on to the water... I was very happy." | Dubliners, James Joyce

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A day in the life of a city.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Remembering #Joyce. Original photos by Mayank Austen Soofi.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

John Berger: "The whole of history is about hopes being sustained, lost, renewed...With hope between the teeth comes the strength to carry on even when fatigue never lets up, comes the strength, when necessary, to choose not to shout at the wrong moment, comes the strength above all not to howl."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Lewis Hyde on the nature of the gift: "The gift moves toward the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns toward him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him." (1/2)

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Reading Charles Eisenstein's Scared Economics and came across this: "The extinction of any species diminishes our own wholeness, our own health, our own selves; something of our very being is lost."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

"Pass us by and forgive us our happiness!" the prince said in a low voice. | The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is..."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Jung on neurosis: "There are in a neurosis two tendencies standing in strict opposition to one another, one of which is unconscious. The neurotic is only a special instance of the disunited man who ought to harmonize nature and culture within himself."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"It's just that a mother rejoices...when she notices her baby's first smile, the same as God rejoices each time he looks down from heaven and sees a sinner standing before him and praying with all his heart." | The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

‘Omar answers’ The wisdom of the wisest of the wise Is but the pinch of powder in the eyes Thrown by the fingers of the fiend, that we True things from false may fail to recognise. Hafiz in London, Hafiz (Translation: J.H. McCarthy)

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"Defenses are forms of narratives, created in imagination and fantasy to support a positive sense of identity and personal worth when these are threatened by cruelty, hostility or indifference from those on whom we are most dependent." | Archetype, Attachment, Analysis; Jean Knox

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"Wishes! Desires! What does life know about them? Life urges and pushes forward and it has its mighty nature into which we stare with our waiting eyes." | The Poet's Guide to Life, Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The self – wounded, incomplete, empty, is felt to have a fundamental flaw, a congenital deficiency. Such logic presupposes a severe super-ego and a complex dialectic of idealization and devalorization, both of self and other."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Mankind owns four things That are no good at sea — Rudder, anchor, oars, And the fear of going down. Antonio Machado

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Waking to sound of thunder Coffee.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Hollis on anger: “The child who suffers the insufficiency of its environment tends to develop a diminished sense of self-worth and addictively pursue affirmation and reassurance from others. In both cases (overwhelm and abandonment), the child unwittingly colludes in self-estrangement."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"What cannot be borne consciously will be projected onto a person, a substance, a behavior, and the wheel turns anew." | Swamplands of the Soul, James Hollis

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“Falling in love happens through projective identification. What feels so good about the ‘in love’ state is that the other is, for the moment, able to reflect our missing piece(s) back to us. The sense of euphoria arises from the momentary intimation of our own wholeness."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“The consequence most terrible to us all from the primal wounding is not the wound itself, but the distortion it causes in one’s sense of self, and the unconscious compulsions to replay analogs of that relationship over and over later in our lives.” | Swamplands of the Soul, James Hollis

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A perspective on anxiety as a portal to individuation: "Risking doubt means risking greater anxiety. But to risk greater anxiety is to open to the enlargement of personality against which our rigid standpoint is a defense.” | Swamplands of the Soul, James Hollis

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

James Hollis on the importance of loneliness and its role in individuation: "The more we are enmeshed with others, the less differentiated, the less individuated we are; the less individuated, the less we serve the greater purposes of the cosmos for which we were so mysteriously generated."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"The two greatest fantasies we are obliged to relinquish in the second half of life are that we are immortal exceptions to the human condition, and that out there somewhere is some "magical Other" who will rescue us from existential isolation." | Swamplands of the Soul, James Hollis

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"The experience of betrayal, translated into psychological terms, provides the opportunity to experience one of the fundamental processes of psychic life, the integration of ambivalence, including the love-hate feelings that exist in every relationship."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Thomas Moore writes about genuine #power: "A tolerance of weakness, you might say, is a prerequisite for the discovery of power, for any exercise of strength motivated by an avoidance of weakness is not genuine power...In general, we keep our power when we protect the power of others."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@msmariestillfree.bsky.social, how are you doing now? Hope you're feeling better 🌱

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is the paradox of socialisation. It is supposed to orient and instruct us to become members of a society, but it also teaches us ideas against community, solidarity, and finding and offering support. One must remember: "Support doesn’t make us weaker – it makes things more possible."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We grieve the loss of friendship in strange ways. There is inconsolable crying or a certain hard-heartedness that prevents us from feeling fully the many pains, without realising soon that a loss of friendship mirrors the losses one accrues from a difficult childhood and brings into adulthood.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

And here he is writing about the power of the #soul. Look at this unforgettable imagery: "The power of the soul, in contrast, is more like a great reservoir or, in traditional imagery, like the force of water in a fast-rushing river. It is natural, not manipulated, and stems from an unknown source."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thomas Moore on jealousy and envy: "It is the gods who become jealous and envious, and only by touching that deep place of divine activity can the individual make a response that is transforming, that takes him to an unfamiliar place where the mythical impulse stirs." (Book: Care of the Soul)

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Bringing grief and death out of the shadow is our spiritual responsibility, our sacred duty. By so doing, we may be able to feel our desire for life once again and remember who we are, where we belong, and what is sacred." | The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Francis Weller

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here is Francis Weller: "Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close. Alone and together, death and loss affect us all."

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When it was over, when they declared a ceasefire, I breathed freely along with everyone else. And now, the work. The task of re-membering the grief, containing it, keeping it warm. And, slowly, bringing down the fort, removing one stone at a time.

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Rathi @ratzest.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I saw my fears rising up like a fort, surrounding, protecting everything I loved and cared for. Everything important was right here before me. Every birdsong, every leaf fall, every laugh, every quirk, every voice, every look. I was already grieving for all this, and the future that may not be.

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