GM. 🔥 One above out there. It doesn't have a minus in front of it. There's relief in this after the frigid temperatures of last week. Off to the mail trail. My fifth and final day. Tomorrow a day off. More relief. I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 1112 1.31.26 P.S. Thankful to be posting this on Nostr. It feels like we are building a better world on here. #gm #coffeechain #plebchain

Time is such a painful mystery partly because, when we take stock of our present awareness, it is inconceivable that this awareness is attached to an entity, an animal, that is born and dies. There is a soul in here, in there--the thoughts and emotions, even though they are attached to an ego, are signs of a soul, signs of an immortal principle, an undying reality. ~ Jacob Needleman, Time and The Soul (2005) #quotes #soul #time

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets. There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid, and it doesn't move from outside to inside through conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out. ~ Rumi #soul #Rumi

"Demoracy must fall because it will try to tailor to everyone. The poor will want the wealth of the rich, and democracy will give it to them. Young people will want to be respected as elderly and democracy will give it to them. Women will want to be like men and democracy will give it to them. Foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will give it to them. Thieves and fraudsters will want important government functions, and democracy will give it to them. _And at that time, when thieves and fraudsters finally democratically take authority because criminals and evil doers want power, there will be worse dictatorship than in the time of any monarchy or oligarchy." ~ Socrates #quotes #philosophy #democracy

GM. Time is short. Been busy with other things. It's -7 out there. Warning up! :-) Off to the mail in a few minutes. But first feel the need to offer a Soul quote. Because that's what matters. This speaks to both of our natures. "We move in eternal regions, yet we worry about property here." ~ Rumi I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 111 1.30.26 #Soul #gm #coffeechain