CuriousWanderer
@knucklemonk
I am a refugee from academia who remains fascinated by the workings of the world. All things are the nature of Nature, so everything is teaching us.
One of my patients this morning is a homeless woman addicted to meth whom I’ve know for many years. She was at one point on the exam table, rocking and sobbing and repeating, “I just want to go home.” I just sat with her and gave her the space to come undone. There have been…
The greater your need to feel superior to others, the more you diminish yourself.
Where am I? Yes, that is the question. But there is no answer— There is only the wind. —Ryokan
Physics is cool.
According to Galilean relativity, if you run backward at the same speed as the moving vehicle, your horizontal velocity relative to the ground becomes zero, causing you to fall straight down due to inertia.
Water flows in and through us. Running, we are rivers. Seated, we are pools. Our brains and hearts are three-quarters water, our skin is two-thirds water; even our bones are watery. We were swimmers before we were walkers, slow-turning like breath-divers in the dark flotation…
The human spirit is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. —Alice Miller, For Your Own Good
As if the warmth of the day did not give into thin night air, as if summer had no end and no beginning, the leaves shine brilliant-red, one hundred thousand sharp-edged proclamations of now. —Nadia Colburn
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” — Socrates
I’m doing a terrible job talking a break from SM, but I just had to share this quote from James Ishmael Ford, friend, Zen teacher, and UU minister. It jives well with my own experience: There seems to be a deep truth that the universal is pretty much only met within the…
Do not speak to me of your certainty in eternal truths; instead, open your heart to the mystery of existence and in humility and wonder find wisdom and grace.
I’m taking an indefinite break from X and all other SM. If you want to keep in touch with me, DM and we’ll figure something out. I do not regret my time here, and met so many people who add light to the world. Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other. 🙏♥️
Stunning: The Black Eye Galaxy (Messier 64) Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy) and D. Richstone (U. Michigan)
"We live in an era in which there is too much information but not enough knowledge, and even less wisdom. This excess of information makes us arrogant and then it makes us numb. We must change this ratio and focus more on knowledge and wisdom. For knowledge we need books, slow…
This is an amazing achievement.
WORLD RECORD!!!! 13:58.06 in the 5000m!!!!!😱😱 Beatrice Chebet 🇰🇪 what have you just done???? She destroyed the World Record in the women's 5000m at the Prefontaine Classic, becoming the first woman in history to break 14 minutes on track! The previous record was 14:00.21 by…
The family that made memories, and included the cat
So much of our suffering comes from misunderstanding. What we believe do be a cobra in the corner of our room is instead just a coil of rope— easily seen if only we had the presence of mind to look more carefully.
I don’t want to lead, nor do I want to follow. I just want to do my own thing, in my own time, in my own way.
Sending love, well-wishes, and hugs. Take care of yourselves and each other in these troubled times. 🙏♥️🫂
I do not know what will come tomorrow Or in all the days thereafter. So for today—I’d better leave these worries And drink all this life’s nectar that I can. —Ryokan
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. —William Blake
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn"" Benjamin Franklin