Gerrit

@gerrit82.bsky.social

"We are all just walking each other home." Ram Das Interiority: #wisdom #poetry #mythology #mind-in-nature #dàojiā Except: #Packers Zero interest: politics, casual followers, marketing

The deeper troubles arise when we confuse ourselves and our fundamental relationships to the world with fictions (or figures of thought) which are taken for granted, unexamined, and often self-contradictory. ― Alan Watts (in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)

THE HEART, THE MIND AND LOVE The mind collects the words. The heart keeps them. The mind collects images. The heart keeps the love that captures us. BONA NIT ♥️ BON DESCANS

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"People try spiritually to achieve realization. The true realization is to achieve a kind heart. Other than that, there is nothing really that is useful. Nothing else”… “The things that we can completely trust, that will never betray us or fail us, are kindheartedness and bodhicitta” ~ Khandro-la

The stem, green leaves and a
flower of pink petals with orange stamen grows out of a tree trunk. 
Taken in Melbourne in February 2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Living a human life in NYC or living a human life in the caves you go through the same stages of childhood, coming to sexual maturity transformation of the dependency of childhood into the responsibility of manhood or womanhood, marriage then failure of the body, gradual loss of its powers & death ⬇️

Image: yellow letters on a black background of the book cover of The Power Of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, 1988.

The famous quote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.” ✒️ Emerson, On Self-reliance 📸 Mizzu Cho

Photo: Three silhouettes on a yellow sunlit wall;
one is pointing a camera.
Source: Mizzu Cho, Marfa, TX, pexels.com
Text: Emerson, On Self-reliance, 1847, p.12.

This is now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire. Sit at the Beloved's table, feast with gusto, drink your fill then dance the way branches of jasmine and cypress dance in a spring wind. ↓