#presence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #presence, aggregated by home.social.
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A thought circulating this week: we've replaced inner peace with nonstop consumption, and then we wonder why everyone's anxious. When we feel uncomfortable, we buy. When we feel lonely, we scroll. The carousel never stops because we never get off. Inner peace isn't something you acquire—it's what's left when you stop trying to fill every quiet moment with noise.
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Ni l’un ni l’autre
La Voie de l’entraînement de l’esprit n’est ni une pratique ni une performance. Elle est ce qui émerge de nous rendant fluide un ajustement constant des moments de silence, de présence, de contact et de mouvements. Aucune idée ne doit la fixer, aucune émotion ne doit la retenir. Alors la pensée devient juste, la parole exprime sa justesse, et l’action suivante apparaît juste au bon moment. Une chanson de Jean-Jacques Goldman - Veiller tard Les paroles sur […] -
APPARENTLY, I APPEAR
TO HAVE STOPPED TRYING 💎Isn't there something slightly absurd about discovering a little peace and immediately wanting to explain it to everybody?
The mind says: Tell them. Teach it. Turn it into something useful.
But the present moment seems completely uninterested in becoming a philosophy.
It is already here.
Coffee. Fire. Bright but cold outside. A dog moving across the room. A conversation with Pete. A body breathing.
Nothing particularly spiritual about any of it.
Perhaps that is the difficulty.
Striving is often regarded as serious, while presence can look like laziness. Planning looks responsible. Regret looks thoughtful. Simply being present can look suspiciously like doing nothing.
And yet everything that actually happens happens here and now.
The past can be remembered. The future can be imagined. Neither can be lived.
So perhaps there is nothing to teach. Nothing to defend. And nothing to broadcast.
Just this.
And then this.
And then this...
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The evening’s “live” selection on deck is another from a group of School Of Rock kids covering one of my favorite Zep tunes and doing a stellar job in the process.
#MusicOfMastodon
#70sAlbumRock
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DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
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#presence : the state of being in a place
- French: présence
- Italian: presenza
- Portuguese: presença
- Spanish: presencia
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Incredible #PhotoCollection featuring works by Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus goes on tour: https://zorz.it/NNIqN
#PesalaBandara #AmericanFederationOfArts #AFA #Presence #museums #collection #UnitedStates #Pictorialism #Surrealism #ThePhotographyCollectionOfJudyGlickmanLauder
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Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.
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Awareness is knowing the world is on fire. Presence is knowing what you can do about it — in your kitchen, your neighborhood, your one small life.
We've confused the two, and it's making us anxious. Shrink your world (not your heart). Local action over global worry.
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I remember life before Big Tech.
"I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
For the man to pour the coffee
And he fills it only halfway
And before I even argue
He is looking out the window
At somebody coming in'It is always nice to see you'
Says the man behind the counter
To the woman who has come in
She is shaking her umbrella
And I look the other way
As they are kissing their hellos
And I'm pretending not to see them
And instead I pour the milk"-- excerpt from Tom's Diner (song) by Suzanne Vega, 1987
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Le Figaro: « Plusieurs #femmes ont dénoncé des #agressions » : à #Ceuta, les habitants clament leur malaise face à la #présence #persistante de #migrants
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Lucioles
J’ai poursuivi tant de rêves qui se sont consumés dans les différentes lueurs que nous projette la peur. Et pourtant, j’avance encore comme ces lucioles virevoltantes vers ce qui émane de leurs ombres fuyant la peur collée à leurs corps. Prendre conscience de sa peur, et ne pas tenter de s’en séparer, ne pas tenter de l’apprivoiser permet de parcourir la voie de l’éveil. Une chanson de Petite Balle - Lucioles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKR2oClvDA Par […] -
I can't recreate the Himalayas, but I carry something.
Once a week I practice silence mornings, harder in the city, but that's the practice.
How do you find stillness in your ordinary life, not waiting for perfect conditions?
#dailypractice #mindfulness #ordinarylife
#meditation #silence #presence
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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386
#HackerNews #website #traffic #bots #digital #marketing #web #analytics #online #presence
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You don't need to travel far to find peace, quiet, or clarity—it is already within you.
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Despacio. One word. My grandmother's entire yoga teaching, without the yoga.
She said it to her plants, to herself, to a ten-year-old who didn't know she was learning.
What word from someone you loved carries the most?
#slowliving #yoga #embodiedwisdom
#spanishyogi #breath #contemplativelife
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A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎This is a path I've found extremely useful.
If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:
#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM
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SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎In sleep, your body self-repairs.
Your brain restores itself.
And your nervous system settles.
If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.
Draw a long, slow in-breath.
Then let the out-breath be even longer.
Keep going.
For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.
Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.
Everything else depends on it.
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Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace
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My breath practice showed me the doorway. Sleep helped me pass through.
#Breathwork #OceanBreath #Sleep #Peace #Stillness #LettingGo #Trust #Rest #Presence #Healing #NervousSystem #Mindfulness #Wellbeing #Life
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SO I SLEEP 💎
I've been doing evening #Ocean Breath just before sleep for about a #year now.
I look forward to getting into the #zone every #night.
For the past two nights, I've started my usual 30 to 50 minutes.
A few minutes later...
I fall into a #deep, #sound sleep.
A few months ago, I would have forced #myself to stay #awake and complete the round.
“I haven't finished my practice.”
Now, though, my body says, “Sleep.”
So I sleep.
The purpose was never to complete 30 to 50 minutes.
The purpose was to arrive at peace.
Perhaps some practices don't need to carry us all the way across a threshold.
Perhaps they only need to bring us to the #door.
Then life, knowing what is needed, quietly takes over.
#Breathwork #OceanBreath #Sleep #Rest #Peace #Wellbeing #Mindfulness #Presence #NervousSystem #Health #Healing #Relaxation #Meditation #Recovery #Life #AI
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New episode: Choosing Joy.
The world may feel uncertain, but you still have a choice about the state of mind and heart you bring to each day.
Join me for a peaceful heart-focused nature meditation on gratitude, presence, and finding joy in this moment.
🎧 Watch live August 6 at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST)
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Saisir l’émerveillement
En apprenant à écouter notre intuition,
nous traçons des aménagements en soi
pour y semer les graines de notre imagination.
Et le plus beau, c’est que ce qui germe de soi
démontre que l’improbable est notre condition.
Apprendre à observer avec attention,
c’est saisir l’émerveillement dans l’amour
de la vie.
Une chanson de Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmAOBosGlHY
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La méditation sans religion
Avec les progrès de l’imagerie médicale, il est devenu possible de voir, avec grande précision, ce qui se passe dans le cerveau d’une personne en méditation ou d’une autre qui prétend avoir des visions. Lorsque des neurologues s’intéressent à la religion, la proximité entre les sciences dures et les disciplines interprétatives posent de multiples questions.
Depuis une trentaine d’années, de nombreux scientifiques ont étendu le champ des recherches sur le cerveau. Dans l’immense champ de recherches, sont nés les concepts de « neuro-anthropologie », « neuro-théologie » et bien d’autre « neuro-quelque chose ».
La méditation sans religion
Les neurones de la spiritualité (1/5) La méditation sans religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIdGgdgBcE&t=15s
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All.I.Cannot.Be
A Prayer for Presence
May I be present
#contemplativePrayer #divinePresence #dreamscape #Faith #gentleness #Grace #Listening #luminousArt #Mindfulness #openness #Prayer #presence #sacredImagination #selfCompassion #SpiritualReflection #surrealPhotography #surrender #Trust #vintagePhotography #whalesInTheSky
to what is before me,
as present as I can be.
May I be open
to whomever is before me,
as open as I can be.
May I be in tune with Thee,
as in tune as I can be.
May I be gentle with myself,
as gentle as I can be.
For however little
I am present,
open,
listening,
or gentle,
Thou art able to be
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The audio recording of last week's Love Your Love Muscle podcast is now available. 🌿
What happens when you stop trying to control your thoughts and simply observe them? In this forest meditation, we use the breath, nature, and gratitude to create a little more space between you and your mind.
🎧 https://www.patreon.com/TMGmeditations/posts/love-your-love-165286357
#Meditation #Mindfulness #Presence #Podcast #LoveYourLoveMuscle
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One Tuesday morning I practiced with no mirror, no phone, no one expected. The body just moved.
I didn't know I was still carrying it until it was gone.
When did your practice stop being something you performed?
#yoga #presence #slowliving
#yogalife #mindfulness #authenticpractice
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REALITY:
NO ASSEMBLY REQUIRED 💎There is #nothing to attain because reality has never been absent.
The mind imagines that #peace lies somewhere ahead, just beyond one more insight, one more #practice, one more achievement. Yet every movement towards a #future peace quietly assumes that peace is not already here.
“I need do nothing” is not an invitation to become passive. It is an invitation to stop interfering.
Reality does not require my improvement. It does not wait for my approval. It does not depend upon my #understanding. It simply is.
The #sun does not struggle to shine. It shines because shining is its #nature. Reality does not struggle to be #real. It is complete before I notice it.
On your #planet, extend yourself vertically towards your Sun.
In #ACIM terms, the #horizontal is the #world of bodies, #time, special #relationships, #conflict and #comparison. It is the movement of the #dream across the surface of the mind. The vertical is the turning of the mind towards #God, towards the #light that has never left it. It does not require withdrawal from the world. It simply restores direction. The horizontal continues, but it is no longer asked to provide what only the vertical can give.
The burden has never been the world. The burden has been my attempt to replace what is here with what I think should be here.
#Stillness is not something I create. It is what remains when I stop #manufacturing #alternatives.
Nothing needs to be added to this moment. Nothing real is missing. Nothing true has been damaged. God has already completed creation. My part is not to improve it but to stop overlooking it.
When I breathe without demanding another experience, stillness becomes obvious.
When I stop searching for meaning, meaninglessness dissolves into simple #presence.
When I stop trying to become, I #discover that being has quietly been here all along.
The world continues. #Weather comes and goes. Bodies age. #Thoughts appear and disappear. None of that has the authority to define reality.
Reality is #warm.
Reality is already here.
The choice is always the same: to become fascinated with the horizontal movement of the #dream, or to remember the vertical orientation towards the light. The vertical does not reject the horizontal. It simply gives it its proper place.
The sun has never stopped shining.
I need only stop looking away.
Right here.
Right now.
Nothing is needed.
Nothing is lacking.
Reality is still exactly as God created it.
#Stillness #INeedDoNothing #ACourseInMiracles #RealityIsHere #NothingIsLacking #InnerPeace #PresentMoment #SpiritualClarity #ChooseTheLight #ExtendTowardsYourSun #NoAssemblyRequired