Perseus with the head of Medusa, c. 1571. Benvenuto Cellini

All eyes on you.

(via kamala-laxman)

Always sharing our problems.

Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching ch.81- (via terracemuse)

You are the clear space of Awareness, pure and still, in whom there is no birth, no activity, no I.

You are one and the same, you cannot change or die.

The world only arises from ignorance, you alone are real.

There is no one, not even God, separated from yourself.

You are pure Awareness; the world is an illusion, nothing more.

When you understand this fully, desire falls away, you find peace, for indeed there is nothing.

In the ocean of Being there is only one, there was and there will be only one.

You are already fulfilled, how can you be bound or free?

Wherever you go, be happy.

Never upset your mind with yes or no.

Be quiet, you are Awareness itself.

Live in the happiness of your own nature, which is happiness itself.

What is the use of thinking?

Once and for all, give up meditation, hold nothing in your mind.

You are the Self, and you are free.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

[Translation by Manuel Schoch, source - http://ashtavakragitaiamshiva.blogspot.com/2015/08/under-construction_99.html?m=1]

The dream is not real. The proof is that it does not affect everyone in the same way. The dream’s effects depend upon the state and the capacity of the perceiver. If you know it to be a dream, its effects will be very weak. If you take it to be real, it will have a strong impact. So how long will the dream continue? That depends upon how quickly you wake up from the waking state. As your discernment becomes more acute, you awaken to the recognition: Look at that—it’s not real after all! I expended so much time and energy fighting this ghost, but now I see that it has never actually been real. Something inside would not let go of the attachment, of my need for the illusion to be real, which is why it kept appearing to be real. But now I see that I have always been free!

Mooji

Have you?

DEVILMAN CRYBABY (2017)

— Ilya Kaminsky, “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” from Deaf Republic

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

THIS RIGHT HERE

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

This is why we need abolition, not reform.

[ID: an excerpt from ‘Poem for a Birthday: With Burning,’ a poem by Sylvia Plath

“We grow.  It hurts at first.”]

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in order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.