your ancestors didn't have therapy. they had forests, mountains, deserts and oceans.
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@lichthauch
soul carpenter, son architect, dust made flesh
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Joined April 2023
- The spiritual awakening nobody talks about is the one where you realize God has been orchestrating black swan events in your life specifically to destroy every false thing you built your identity on, and what you thought was bad luck was actually precision demolition. The reason
- the way a child stops to examine a leaf while you're rushing somewhere important isn't wasted time. it's a ceremony you've forgotten how to perform - the sacred act of noticing.
- The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally
- As a man you are cursed to become the exact size of what you hunt. Hunt pennies and your soul shrinks to copper. Hunt kingdoms and your hands grow large enough to hold crowns. This is the law: God carved your capacity from the same stone as your ambition, and He will not let you
- Whatever you think about obsessively for six months literally restructures your brain tissue and then you walk around with a different brain acting like it's still you making choices when really it's just the thoughts you chose to loop on repeat six months ago now running
- if good men refuse to accumulate money then money accumulates in the hands of demons, and while you contemplate the spiritual corruption of wealth, they're buying your children's destiny. so tell me again how noble it is to stay poor while they grow rich enough to rewrite reality
- dostoyevsky said hell isn't fire and chains but simply being unable to love. we search for God in cathedrals when he hides in the eyes of strangers who need us. in the beggar we rush past. in the enemy we refuse to forgive. in the parts of ourselves we keep locked in darkness. we
- Any man who truly loves a woman becomes temporarily insane, he sees infinity in her laugh and mortality in her tears and suddenly understands why ancient kings burned cities for Helen's face
- people obsess over regret like it's some mathematical equation where bad choices stack up forever. but your life pivots on five or six massive decisions that eclipse everything else. the good decision, will burn away all previous failures like they were nothing
- if you watch porn you're training your brain to be aroused by what you cannot touch, to desire what you cannot have, to climax while completely alone, which means you're practicing for hell, where all pleasure is visual, all desire is eternal, and all satisfaction is forever out
- michelangelo painted sistine chapel ceiling lying on his back four years. paint dripping into his eyes neck breaking spine screaming. wrote poem about the agony: "my stomach pushes by force beneath my chin. my brush above my face makes it splendid by dripping paint." painting godThesis on the decline of art: authors, musicians and filmmakers are, like us, always on their phones, and thus no longer forced to creatively contend with the silence and boredom that used to be an inescapable reality of everyday life
- once you taste making something from nothing - a child, a poem, a garden, a home - you understand divinity from the inside. creation itself is addictive
