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It’s very popular to use cameras costing thousands of dollars to get high res photographs of tree vaginas right now. #magnolias

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The word ‘soul’ is variable; we use it to point toward something ineffable. Yet intimately familiar. I don’t know what a soul is, but without it I cannot know. It is that which, from beyond myself… imposes the possibility of coherence to my...

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Mean privilege: the privileges that can be (and often are) stolen or captured with nothing more than cruelty, fierceness, threat, and harm.

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For our intelligence to »merely survive the dangers imported once polarities are introduced… we must learn a few skills. One is not to generalize from the specific to the universal. Example: some person treated me cruelly; humans are cruel. Another is to think...

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I have often heard experienced Zen teachers say something like ‘Go straight ahead’. I noticed yesterday that most of the misery I experience in my mind is related to ‘looking backwards’ (in time) and preserving what I had previously derived...