navigating the strange moment we are in
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Billy from Seattle retweeted
Students & hardworking people should not finish school with a mortgage before they actually *get* a mortgage.
I’m going to show up in the halls of Congress & show up at the White House to push the President to use his power & provide *strong* student debt relief for Georgians.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
The latest #soberquestioning — out on my sobriety date! — might be my favorite one yet. The question really got into my head; I hope my thoughts are useful to someone. thecut.com/2022/03/sober-que…
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Our true nature can always be found. When we look past the chronic chatter and dissatisfaction in our minds, it is always there. At our core, we all unconditionally love ourselves and the world without reservation.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Awake awareness, as the primary source of how we know and who we are, cannot be harmed by any strong emotional state. We can experience a feeling like fear without being threatened by it. -Loch Kelly, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
#LochKelly #EffortlessMindfulness #Awakening
Billy from Seattle retweeted
GOP targeting vaccine passports?
Wait til they hear about driver’s licenses, photo IDs to vote, Social Security cards, TSA screening, birth certificates, proofs of residence, real passports, and the certificates of vaccination we ALREADY require.
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Billy from Seattle retweeted
Awakening unfolds uniquely for each individual, but for most of us it occurs as a series of shifts as we discover and then embody the awareness that is already free, awake, and connected. ~Loch Kelly
#Awakening #LochKelly #Mindfulness #Meditation #EffortlessMindfulness
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Self-referential thinking--thinking that looks to itself to know--is its own prison. We think up a sense of separation that's not really there, and we miss out on the direct experience of seeing and feeling what's actually here. -Loch Kelly
#EffortlessMindfulness
Billy from Seattle retweeted
'There’s a belief among a certain set of Democrats that taking an idea and cutting it in half makes it a better idea when it just makes it a worse idea'
nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opini…
Billy from Seattle retweeted
All growth requires loss. A loss of your old values, your own behaviors, your old loves, your old identity. Therefore, growth sometimes has a component of grief to it.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Did you know Amy Coney Barrett is sitting in a stolen judicial seat right now? In May 2017, Trump nominated Barrett to IN seat on Seventh Circuit, which covers Indiana, Illinois & Wisconsin. This is same seat to which President Obama nominated Myra Selby, a Black woman, in 2016.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice — whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Clean water & air represent progress, not a violation. But they required regulation.
De-regulation is often used as a virture stemming from freedom. But restricting freedoms is the sign of a mature society. 15/
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Trump: “When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total.”
Nope.
That would be the literal definition of a *totalitarian* government—which our traditions, our Constitution, and our values all rightly and decisively reject.
Billy from Seattle retweeted
Yup, that's my graph you're talking about, @AnandWrites 🙂🙂
epi.org/productivity-pay-gap…
Billy from Seattle retweeted
The past is exhausted from holding all of your grievances, traumas, and personal history.
The future is bored holding on to all of your expectations and judgments of what “should” be.
Let go of the baggage. We don’t need it where we’re going 💙
Billy from Seattle retweeted
While the first step is to discover that space is free of mental obsession, the next step is to discover that space is not absence, rather space itself is aware —so we do not become stuck as a detached mindful witness.
#awakening #advancedmeditation #effortlessmindfulness #awake
Billy from Seattle retweeted
We often take the voices in our head to be who we are. But who we are primarily is the awareness that hears these thoughts, and dwelling in this awareness brings a peace of mind that can accept thoughts without forming an identity from them.
#awakening #mindfulness
Billy from Seattle retweeted
"The experience of freedom arises not from acquiring our preferred lifestyle and our preferred state of mind but from a willingness to stay with ourselves - to be completely committed to experiencing our lives - regardless of circumstance."
-Bruce Tift
Billy from Seattle retweeted
“A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself...”
–Hafiz, as translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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