MARIA KNOWS.

 

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— Maria Popova (@mariapopova.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM

COMMON SENSE is SENSUAL

PRIORITISE ☮️

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Alignment over approval. Authenticity over appeasement. Boundaries over benevolence. Being over becoming. Courage over control.  Composure over chaos. Coherence over conquest. Depth over drama. Discernment over desperation. Excellence over exhaustion.  Elegance over excess. Endurance over exhibition. Fidelity over frenzy. Flow over force. Grace over grasping. Groundedness over gossip.  Humility over hierarchy. Honour over hubris’s. Intuition over insistence. Inner wealth over outer validation. Sincerity over justification. Justice over jealousy. Knowing over noise. Kinship over competition. Legacy over lust. Long vision over loud ambition. Mystery over messaging. Meaning over meanness. Movement over rumour.  Nuance over novelty. Nature over narrative. Order over overwhelm. Observation over opinion. Presence over perfection. Presence over provocation. Presence over pretence.   Presence over prohibition.  Quiet over quarrel. Quality over quantity. Quintessent...
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RESPECT FULL. GRACE FULL. MEANING FULL. HEART CONNECT NOT MIND ATTACH.

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When in a meaning full relationship, protect your partner’s peace.   Stay away from limited people with dogmatic mind attachments who force their issues, who enable poor behaviour choices, who are not transparent and only begrudgingly tolerate your mistakes,  Avoid completely those one track wonders who push you to do misaligned things, and who convince you to ruin something aligned with your own soul.  Limiting people can’t help you grow, mind attached dogma, myopic narrow views will only drag you down and slowly poison your liberation.  Discerningly choose not to follow any proscriptive mindset that is limiting, or become like them just to fit in or avoid loneliness.  Cults of busyness, racist assholes, limiting or conversionist religious models, spirituality that demands blind obedience, any rapacious business models that put corporate greed and profit over human well being are to be called out.  Choose self care, choose maturity, choose boundaries, and ...
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ATMA VIDYA. DIRECT, JOYOUS, SIMPLE.

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You either have a supportive partner, or no partner.  There is no in between. Do not stand with those who deny another’s lived experience. Listen, pay attention, loosen up, lighten up, flow not force, rise up naturally.   
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LIFE LIVE IT

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Don't ruminate, activate. I find it is difficult to think my way into a better mood. When I sit and stew, the problem usually grows larger in my mind. But if I activate — even if it's unrelated to the problem at hand — my mood tends to improve. Action breaks the spell. Move your body, go outside, play an instrument, work in a different room, do something. Movement changes your state. And when your state changes, your perspective changes. New solutions appear. You notice options that were invisible when your mind was stuck running the same loop. DISCERNING JOY & PRIORITISE PEACE  KARMA ALWAYS FINDS The right ADDRESS  DO NO HARM, TAKE NO SHIT  BE KIND NOT RIGHT  LIFE IS VERY VERY SIMPLE  IF YOU CHOOSE…  LIGHTEN UP, WHY SO SERIOUS? Unless it is…    
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