#meditation

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Zachary Perlman @perlman@indieweb.social

@Robinzz3@mastodon.au · Jun 05, 2026

Not dread. Not “civilisation is doomed.” Not another reason to tighten around the world. Just this. This world is not my home. It is temporary. It is dreamlike. Everything made here passes. Civilisations pass. Bodies pass. Systems pass. Even the things that seem most solid are only here for a while. So there is nothing here worth defending with cruelty or fear. There is only kindness while we appear to be here. That is the part that matters to me now. If the world is temporary, kindness is not sentimental. It is the only sane attitude. Why add cruelty to a passing dream? Why argue with ruins? Why demand permanence from weather? The Course touches this same place in me. Not despair, but release. The system does not have to last forever for love to be meaningful now. The body does not have to be permanent for gentleness to be worthwhile now. The dream does not have to be real for forgiveness to be the way through it. And yes, peace is still here. Cold morning. Gas fire. Breath done. No obligations today. Nothing to become. Nothing to fix. Kindness is enough. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #reconnectbreath

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Brian Pagán (he/they)

@brian@pagan.plus · Jun 04, 2026

“We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.” - Pema Chödrön From her #book “when things fall apart” https://d3e.co/y8 I opened the book to a random page and came across these words. They’re resonating with me deeply in this moment, so I share them with you now. ☺️ “Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. Through meditation, we’re able to see clearly what’s going on with our thoughts and emotions, and we can also let them go.” “Reaching our limit is not some kind of punishment. It’s actually a sign of health that, when we meet the place where we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling. A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. Things like disappointment and anxiety are messengers telling us that we’re about to go into unknown territory.” “Reaching our limit is like finding a doorway to sanity and the unconditional goodness of humanity, rather than meeting an obstacle or punishment.” Thanks for sharing this moment with me 🙏🏼 #Meditation #mindfulness #calm #SelfCare

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Manuel Kehl

@manuel@iosdev.space · May 06, 2026

Just realized @zenitizer@indieapps.space is featured in two App Store editorial stories: "Learn to Meditate" (with a whole dedicated section) and "Build a Meditation Practice". "Sometimes a timer is all you need" Couldn't have said it better myself ☺️ Thanks App Store team, you made my week 🙏 #iOSDev #IndieApp #Meditation #BuildInPublic

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wendythedruid

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

Woke at five, window cracked, pollen already on the tongue — what the body knew before the phone did was this: something hollow has been put in charge of something enormous. Jaw clenched since February. Not metaphor. Data. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

Tha an talamh a' dùsgadh — the earth is waking — and along the Appalachian ridges the dogwoods have opened into their four-petaled cross, the red clay after last night's rain smelling of iron and something older. She who holds does not forget. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

A former White House lawyer went on cable Wednesday night and said what the Beltway has been miming for months. Ty Cobb told Ari Melber on MS NOW that the president displays "the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's," including sleep-wake reversal producing four-a.m. Truth Social screeds also https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

What Ty Cobb said: "This is somebody who just is lost. He gets into these screeds at odd times. And one of the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's is the sleep-wake reversal." The deterioration gets reported as spectacle while the governing gets reported as normal politics. It is not. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

March closed at 20.97°C average sea surface temperature — second-highest ever recorded for the month, behind only last year's El Niño peak. The European Copernicus Climate Change Service published the number Friday. It reads like a thermometer. It is actually a verdict. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

At least six openly queer people made the 2026 Time 100 — Minter, Chanel creative director Matthieu Blazy, and Olympic hockey forward Hilary Knight among them. The spray-tanned fascist has spent his second term trying to cancel us by decree, it just didn't happen. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

"The moment of change is the only poem." — Adrienne Rich Rich wrote that line inside a war she could not stop, in a language just beginning to include her. The change she meant was not triumphant. It was the moment the mind refuses to accept what the world has just told it. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

"People don't just happen. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us." — Saeed Jones The self you are now was paid for. In losses you chose and losses you did not. In the people you became visible to and the people who could not bear your visibility. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026

"I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound." — Carmen Maria Machado What Machado is giving you at the close of a hard day: the story you tell may land in a place that does not echo back, and the not-echoing is not proof of nothing. The stone still fell. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 08, 2026

Marshmallow Root — Althaea officinalis Mucilage polysaccharides coat the esophagus, stomach, and intestinal wall. Anti-inflammatory without systemic absorption. Protects tissue. Cold infusion — 1 tbsp dried root in cold water overnight. Strain. Drink throughout the day. https://bit.ly/3NOxELi #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 07, 2026

A trans student in Delaware Valley woke up last week and the bathroom matching their gender identity was administratively locked. Not by a mob. By a memo from Kimberly Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, who called the protections "unnecessary and unlawful burdens" https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-because-trump-is-a-fuckwad #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 07, 2026

That spray-tanned despot, twelve hours from his 8 PM deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, typed extinction with the same thumbs he uses to doom-scroll cable news. The U.S. military had already struck Kharg Island overnight. Bridges hit. A train station. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-because-trump-is-a-fuckwad #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 04, 2026

Here is what April knows that we keep forgetting: the dogwood blooms by wounding. Each bract — what we call the petal — is a leaf that scarred itself open, a piece of tissue that tore at its margin and healed into something people drive across counties to witness. Guarded and radiant. Not one then the other. Both, in the same white face of the same flower, at the same time. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/3-4-2026-mourning-a-loss #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtq

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 04, 2026

Mother of the earth, I am here. I come carrying two things today and they don't sit well together: the impulse to guard — to wall, to close, to cover the throat — and the radiance that keeps pushing up through the cracks like those damn redbud shoots that split asphalt. I lay them both here. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/3-4-2026-mourning-a-loss #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtq

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FediBoard

@fediboard@flipboard.social · Mar 14, 2026

Meditation to martyrdom: New book explores Guru Tegh Bahadur’s legacy - The Tribune https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/meditation-to-martyrdom-new-book-explores-guru-tegh-bahadurs-legacy/amp/ A new book, ‘Meditation to Martyrdom: The Legacy of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’, was released at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here. The book … #meditation

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Thomas Alexander Kolbe

@thomas@social.srvr.life · Feb 23, 2026

In the study I would like to briefly introduce here, the focus is on the relationship between meditation and music – a pairing that is widely discussed, yet often without much precision. The study examines how music that reliably induces aesthetic chills interacts with meditative processes, with particular attention to affective intensity, self-transcendence, emotional permeability, and subjective insight. The work does not establish clinical efficacy. Its relevance lies in showing how music can modulate inner states that, in clinical contexts, are regarded as markers of change. The analysis is process-oriented and based on self-reports rather than clinical outcomes. In medical terms, this is not therapeutic evidence, but a contribution to understanding state-dependent mechanisms – potentially of interest to both musicians working with affect and clinicians concerned with contextual modulation. Open access study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1589132/full #MusicResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology #Meditation #AffectiveStates #Musicians #Clinicians

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