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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 9 months

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'all things pass' by Loui Jover

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“I like the idea of these rituals, anger and resentment, like other patterns of emotional response, are not merely personal; they have a generic, habitual quality. For example, if you get into a resentful state of mind, simply by being in that state of mind you tune in by morphic resonance with countless people who have been resentful in the past, including yourself. So you are influenced by your own past resentments and the resentments many other people have felt. You tune in to a generalized sense of resentment. These things are transpersonal in the sense that they possess us. Good habits can also possess us. We’re not usually very original. Most of the feelings, habits, states of mind we get into, many other people have had in the past. When we get into them we’re linking ourselves to all the people who have been in similar states before us.

If we’re in a state of Grace, then we’re part of what, in a christian context, we call the communion of saints.”

Natural Grace ::: Rupert Sheldrake

[alive on all channels]

#morphogenic field #resonance #felt sense #feeling state #morphic resonance #Natural Grace #rupert sheldrake #alive on all channels #quotes

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candylandphotos · 9 months

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pretty woman

"Elegance Redefined: Exploring the Grace and Charisma of a Pretty Woman."

#Timeless beauty #Captivating allure #Radiant charm #Feminine elegance #Inner confidence #Natural grace #Lovely smile #Dazzling presence #Effortless poise #Subtle attractiveness #Graceful demeanor #Youthful appeal #Delicate features #Inner glow #Understated elegance #beautiful women #pretty girl #pretty woman

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sodamnbored · 27 days

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Leo: *frantically rubbing himself down with balloons*

Nico: What on earth are you doing?

Leo: I’m about to try asking Jason out.

Nico, sarcastically: Sure, that explains everything.

Leo, impatiently: I need it to go well. Look at that face. He must have people hitting on him all the time, so I need a way to stand out.

Leo, grinning: So I’m going to use static electricity to create an electric shock when I casually touch him, so sparks will literally fly when I ask him out.

Nico, amused: Okay, well have fun tricking Jason into falling in love with you.

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milktea-grn · 2 months

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hair gel things

#still trying to figure out how to draw him please grant me some grace during this awkward period #i saw a pic on pinterest on the days progression of gelled hair and just thought about roman my bad #i love his shaggy hair so much #it gives me the teensiest sense of a bit of a trad goth vibe a little classic robert smith spice the softly spiked nature #pls uneerstand me you just get it #roman roy #succession #my art #reblogs are welcome

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canisalbus · 2 months

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Imagine if Machete was Muslim instead of Catholic. His name would be something like Saif سيف, and Vasco would probably be something like Dhahabi ذَهَبِيّ

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#I don't know Arabic so I can't weigh in that much but if you say so!#it seems like these mean “sword” and “golden” respectively that's neat #Machete wouldn't be able to cling to his Catholic guilt in that case #I don't think Islam has the same concept of original sin that Christianity does #I'm simplifying but it's a belief that humans are born with an innate tendency for evil sinning is part of our nature #and staying on the positive and in God's good graces requires a lot of repentance which can lead to excess guilt and shame #I could be wrong but I'm under the impression that this idea of a manufacturing error is a very Christian thing #sorry I know you didn't sign up to hear me try to talk about big theology things and I don't want to make it weird #but I find this stuff really interesting I unironically like to read and think about how religions work #and how they shape things they come in contact with #in Machete's case in particular his troubled relationship with God and his career choice are big parts of his character #and why he turned the way he did and thinks the way he does you know #answered #kachavashka #Dhahabi is such a regal sounding name #I'd steal that in a heartbeat if I didn't already have one extremely gold-coded character

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incorrect-esmp-quotes · 4 months

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Oli, watching Shelby and Katherine talk: How many chapters of your Nature Wives fanfiction is this giving you?

Sausage: So many.

#incorrect empires smp quotes #incorrect empires quotes #incorrect empires smp #incorrect empires #incorrect quotes #empires smp #empires smp season 2 #empires season 2 #empires s2 #nature wives #orionsound #mythical sausage #katherine elizabeth gaming #katherine elizabeth #shubble #shelby grace #source: the marvels

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radiance1 · 4 months

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New idea.

The entire world has been turned into animal like creatures. They still walk on two legs (most of them) and they're still human in form really. Some have only ears, some have only a tail, some have fur, some has the eyes.

Some even have all three.

There was a lot of outrage about this, mostly from shock, fear of the unknown and sudden change. Unfortunately, the government couldn't do anything about it, nor could the Justice League.

It was just... natural as it was unnatural.

In fact, it even seemed to be beneficial to everyone. Some adapted better to certain climates, some developed remarkable better immune systems than they did before and it seemed certain types of parasites and diseases just stopped affecting them entirely.

All in it, it was a beneficial change, one that the government saw no need to interfere with or ask the Justice League to find a way to revert this change.

Even if everyone needed to adjust to the sudden... shift.

Somehow, by no grace of will of his own, Vlad found himself with basically everything. He has the ears, the tail, the chest fur and fur along his arms and legs and he even has the eyes.

Red. Eyes at that.

Now you see, this wouldn't be that much of a problem actually.

If this mysterious shift in his biology didn't deem him a bunny. A prey animal and, nothing against bunnies, personally, he just wished he was given something more...

Intimitading.

Like Lex Luthor-as much as he loathed to admit it-, who became a fox of all things. Honestly, a perfect example of his character if Vlad had to say anything, his cunning and deceitfulness.

Let alone the man's intellect...

Although, it did look a tad odd to see furred appendages on that man's rather... shiny head.

Such things aside, Vlad has not attended a gala in a mighty long while after the change and he already knew it would look like he was too off put by his change, or embarrassed by what animal he was given and yes, he was a tad bit embarrassed about it but unlike them he was working on a cure.

Something that provided, perhaps unsurprisingly, zero results.

Vlad did not take the government's choice lying down, he believed himself smarter, superior to whatever they have working away for them in their labs, and proved that he could create something that would give him back his human status.

Well, half-human, but that was besides the point.

He failed. So what did he do? Figure out how exactly it affected his biology, special case that he was only 3 in the world and, contrary to his expectations... it went very well? While his animal traits did indeed follow him into his ghost form, he could shift until he appeared exactly how he was before.

Small mercies. His identity wouldn't be any harder to realize than it was before, thanks to this.

He was so caught up in this, in fact, that he was surprised when Lex Luthor came out of hiding a month ago. Honestly, he would've thought he wouldn't have seen the light of day for at least a few years. So obviously, Vlad had to come out of hiding as well, and even if Vlad disliked his bunniness, it was an infinitely smaller feeling than the urge to cause Lex Luthor pain and misery.

It wasn't exactly a surprise to see the little badger being, well, a badger. A bit to see that he basically shared every trait Vlad had, if only in badger form.

But that isn't the point. The event he needed to attend-to spit (metaphorically) in Lex's stupid face- needed him to have a plus one or multiple, so what better person to go with him than his godson?

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miru667 · 6 months

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🥰 Audrey Grace, from teen to adult! 🌱🌻

#audrey grace #audtree #the lorax #miru art #her original askblog in 2012 was set right before she was going to turn 16 #and 11 years later now she's 27 #i guess at first i just wanted to see how i would draw her as 16 again and then i wanted to compare it to how i draw her these days #luckily the way I drew her changed naturally and gradually anyway over the 11 years #the main difference is that she's got some muscle now from fighting zombies for years #the height difference here is exaggerated lol in my mind she already had her growth spurt by 16 #and then she got stuck at 5'4 and a half (164cm)

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years

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[from my files]

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My first and favorite Sheldrake book was "Natural Grace" -- a dialogue between Sheldrake & Matthew Fox. Here is some of the back & forth: (Each little piece is a meditation) "The Holy Spirit carries Grace on its Back." "We don't have soul until we become a field where God is working compassion." "Every creature is a word of God and a book about God." "Every creature shares in the dignity of causality, that God has shared with all creatures." "Walk your walk of lament on a path of praise." "We have been loved before the beginning." "Who is a good person? A good person is one who praises good people." Some people are looking for mistakes, to put people down -- operating from cynicism. But a good person is looking for goodness and when a good person sees it, he or she praises. The idea is that morality is based on praise, not on good works as such and certainly not on obeying commandments as such. In this spontaneity that praises lies the basis for a rich morality indeed. Again, it's the difference between original blessing and original sin.

You begin with what's good in people and build it up. Then the goodness increases in its presence. But the other way around just doesn't do the job. The word "Eucharist" just means "thank you;" it is the word for thanks or praise in Greek." "The morphic field, the Communion of Saints, the ancestors and the future --all that power comes into a place when we are doing ritual well together." "It's a sin to bore people and call it worship." "In the depths of the soul God creates the entire cosmos, past, present, and future." “God is novissimus, the newest thing in the Universe.........God is always "in the beginning."

#Rupert Sheldrake #Matthew Fox #Natural Grace #my flickr files

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candylandphotos · 9 months

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