iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 18h

If you're over 45 and don't have an under-30 mentor — not mentee, mentor — then you're going to miss fundamental shifts in thinking that are happening. —Jan Owen

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, don't slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish you a deepening intimacy with darkness that has nothing to do with despair: fertile darkness, restful darkness, mysterious darkness, the darkness of seeds underground and dreams before they become words.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why do I still bother posting on Bluesky when after two years here I barely get responses? If you know the theories of the Noosphere or Indra's Net or the Akashic Records, you'll guess that I'm glad just to be making redemptive and uplifting imprints in the collective unconscious.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation’s ability to give us life. But Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that’s true love. - Julia Butterfly Hill .

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." —A.A. Milne "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." Ralph Waldo Emerson: "You're lost but you're making good time." —Casey Stengel "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." —Harry S. Truman

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish you the capacity to forgive yourself for having needed illusions that you no longer need. May you honor the shelter they once provided before dismantling them and recycling their materials into more beautiful realities.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish you a growing talent for detecting invisible and secret abundance: the knowledge you have accumulated, the people who would answer if you called, the skills hidden in your hands, the memories that still feed you, the possibilities concealed inside what initially looks like emptiness.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The rise & fall of images of the future precede or accompany the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay & lose its vitality, the culture does not long survive —sociologist Fred Polak

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One Zen student said, “My teacher is the best. He can go days without eating.” The second said, “My teacher has so much self-control, he can go days without sleep.” The third said, “My teacher is so wise that he eats when he’s hungry and sleeps when he’s tired.”

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Annie Dillard: Spend it all, play it all, right away, every time. Don't hoard what seems good for later. Give it all. Something more & better will arise later. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you've learned is destructive. Anything you don't give freely and abundantly is lost to you.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish you encounters with your future self. These visitations may not happen in visions or dreams, but in intuitions about the person you’re becoming and the gifts that person is sending backward through time to help you now.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I wish you affection for the unglamorous labor that keeps everything thriving, like the paid bill, the returned phone call, the thank-you note, and the swept floor. And I wish you the sweet recognition that your love of life flourishes in these acts.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I wish you an aging process that makes you stranger and wilder rather than smaller and tighter: more opinionated about the exact ripeness of a pear & the right volume for singing in a car, less available for conversations that bore you, increasingly drawn to dancing & wandering & bouts of curiosity.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. - David Foster Wallace

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Proposed message for you to deliver to the Universe sometime soon: "Dear Life, I declare myself open and ready to receive miracles, uplifting news, fun breakthroughs, smart love, and unexpected blessings. I am also willing to welcome useful tips on how to express my dark side with beauty and grace."

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wish you intimate relations with the parts of reality that have no interest in your résumé, reputation, productivity, or social standing: rainstorms, migrating birds, moonlight, mud, weeds, rivers, stones, and the intelligence of trees.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The arc of history is longer than human vision. We abolished slavery & granted universal suffrage. We've done hard things before. Each time it took a terrible fight between people who couldn't imagine changing the rule & those who said, "We already did. We made the world new." -Barbara Kingsolver

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish you the ability to recognize when you are trying to solve with thought what can only be solved through movement, touch, rest, music, laughter, tears, sunlight, or a long ramble with no destination.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Factual information & reasonable thinking alone aren't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human should be to receive mysteriously useful omens & interesting surprises on a regular basis

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Spiritual bypassing is a tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks. — Psychotherapist John Welwood

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself. —Deena Metzger

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and the below like the above, and when you make the male like the female and the female like the male, then you will enter the Kingdom Jesus, Gnostic Gospel, Thomas

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Be the kind of person a crow brings trinkets to . .

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I wish you encounters with beauty so piercing they shatter your cynicism and build your faith in the sacramental nature of ordinary moments I wish you the ability to metabolize your rage into fuel for creative projects that serve beauty and justice, rather than letting it corrode you from within

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ken Burns says one of the things that alarms him most at this moment in culture is that so many people are eager to express their opinions and so few are interested in telling stories. So tell me a story! We'll talk about opinions later.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I wish you the discernment to distinguish between the suffering that teaches and the suffering that merely grinds you down, and the courage to eliminate the latter.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I wish you breakthroughs that arrive not through grim determination but through playful experimentation, reminding you that the shortest path to transformation often runs through pleasure.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wish you regular access to states of consciousness in which your problems reveal themselves as less solid than you had imagined and more amenable to creative solutions.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've published a new book. This collection of "Love Oracles to Liberate Your Imagination" is a tender and rowdy guide to understanding the Aries energy It offers oracles, insights, and provocations to help Aries natives, their allies, and anyone who aspires to cultivate courage, candor, and daring

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Tender, relentless, ingenious self-care is a superpower. .

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My horoscopes aren't rooted in any belief system, doctrine, mystical wishing, well-rationalized bias, or rebellion against science. They're fueled by poetry: in service to the liberated imagination Read them here: tinyurl.com/NotJustBeingNice tinyurl.com/WildnessCelebration

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here's the oracle I want to write for you in a year: "You escaped the chains that kept you in bondage to your prime source of suffering. You broke the trance it kept you in and freed yourself from its demoralizing curse. Very nicely done! Congratulations! Excellent work!"

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

News Flash: Patriarchy and its toxic version of masculinity comprise civilization’s primal crime. All other atrocities spring from it—genocide, bigotry, colonialism, misogyny, warfare, militarism, all of it.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's increasingly difficult for me to vibe with people — even keen, talented people — who are salty about everything all the time. Gotta have some sweetness in this life. I believe in the intelligence of honey. —Saeed Jones @atheferocity

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"I do want to create art beyond rage. Rage is a place to begin, but not end. "I do want to devour my demons—despair, grief, shame, fear—and use them to nourish my art. Otherwise they’ll devour me." - Sandra Cisneros

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is the work that may decide whether the century is survivable: to recover, exalt, and trust the intelligence our culture spent so long teaching us to despise. .

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” - J.G. Ballard .

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Moon in Scorpio until June 26. Go deeper than ever before. Dig past the superficial level of interpretation, both in the world and yourself. Find where your most intense feelings reveal their most brilliant insights. Dare to be more honest with yourself than you imagined possible.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Jesus in Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and the below like the above, and when you make the male like the female and the female like the male, then you enter the Kingdom.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." —Robin Wall Kimmerer

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