Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

Rob Brezsny: Creator of Free Will Astrology and "Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia" ~ https://t.co/8eBdZiz8uD & https://t.co/F2RztTomrl & https://t.co/OJ9QWRiTdG FreeWillAstrology.com Upwind from San Francisco Joined October 2011

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

9 months ago

Enter each day expecting that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. —Sam Keen

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Progressive political commentator Bob Cesca says: "I've covered politics and worked in the news media for 35 years. The last 3 weeks have been the most self-destructive, the most damaging to democracy, the most unethical three weeks for the political media I've ever observed."

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

"Malefic ecstasy" is the feeling of intense pleasure that some people get as they think about and dwell on and talk about horrific futures and demoralizing events. It's also known as "exultant malaise" and "blissful pessimism."

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

The brilliant historian and political analyst Heather Cox Richardson writes: The media has started a death-watch for the one man, leading an incredible team, who is standing in the breach between us continuing our 248 year democracy and fascism. .

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Due to personal reasons, I will be shining brightly and unapologetically for the foreseeable future.I invite you to join me. .

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Assume your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical & compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Four Foolish "Virtues": 1. being so analytical that we repress our intuition 2. sacrificing pleasure through compulsive devotion to duty 3. tolerating excess stress because we wrongly assume it helps us accomplish more 4. being so knowledgeable that we neglect to be curious

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way. ~Karen Armstrong

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Pick your battles. But before you finish picking, eliminate some battles you were considering. Then go ahead and discard a few other battles. Shed some of the battles you had already chosen. That's still too many battles.

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

a year ago

Write down descriptions of 5 blissful moments you've experienced. Dwell lovingly on these memories for a few minutes. Keep them close to the surface of your awareness for a while. If you slip into a negative thought, interrupt it and fantasize about those Big 5 Ecstatic Moments.

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

We are subversive mystics stoking the fires of poetry & lobbying for the liberated imagination We are militant ecstatics invoking the transformative powers of pleasure to sanctify the Earth We are mutinous purveyors of grace redistributing wealth so all creatures may thrive

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

I invite you to say this: I'm learning what's important to know about what I don't need & who I don't want to be I'm avoiding the suffering that comes from wishing my life were different from how it actually is I'm coming to be at peace with my soul's idiosyncratic destiny.

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

How You Used Your Nightmares to Become Smart & Strong How You Exploited Your Problems to Become a Spiritual Freedom Fighter How You Fed & Fed Your Monsters Till They Ate Themselves to Death How You Turned Envy & Anger into Generosity, Compassion, & Success Why Perfection Sux

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

Make the invisible dark force beautiful Create songs out of your moans Dissolve ties that bind you to hollow intelligence Fall out of love with fear Play forever in time’s blessing Train yourself in the art of unpredictability Generate sublime messes out of ugly messes

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

Everyone should carry two pieces of paper On one, you write, "I am but dust and ashes." On the other, you write, "For my sake the world was created." The key to a successful life is to be guided by both statements—the two opposing truths in balance Rabbi Jeffrey Summit

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

I kick my own ass and wash my own brain. I push my own buttons and trick my own pain. I burn my own flags and roast my own heroes. I mock my own fears and cheer my own zeroes. I won’t accept gifts that infringe on my freedom. I shun sacred places that stir up my boredom.

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

We are always in need of radicals who are also lovable. ~ Howard Zinn

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Free Will Astrology @FreeWillAstro

2 years ago

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin