Japan just launched a wooden (yes made of wood) satellite called LignoSat.

It is the world's first wooden satellite and I t'll stay in orbit for six months in an attempt to prove wood is a space-grade material.

It’s one step in Kyoto university’s long and distant dream of building timber houses on the moon and mars .

Pain is the touchstone of growth. Struggle shapes character.

Through adversity, Bobby Kennedy has emerged as a leader who understands suffering, redemption, and the fight for something greater than himself.

An often-overlooked detail in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam:

God’s finger is fully extended, while Adam’s remains slightly bent—leaving a small yet profound gap between them.

The message?

Divine grace is always within reach, but it is up to us to extend our hand in return.

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is
why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such
infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture
of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may
be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

- C. S. Lewis


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The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy:

the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!


A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in
somebody else's imagination,
as if that were the only
place in which one could at last become real!

- Thomas Merton

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Man cannot
remake himself without suffering,
for he is both the marble and
the sculptor.

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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Emil Cioran

Don't be rude. Every imposition devoid of grace is doomed to collapse.

An Olive Tree’s top tips for Immortality

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and
nature will respond to that commitment by removing
impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and
the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and
philosophers who really counted, who really touched
the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This
is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how
magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and
discovering it's a feather bed.



- Terence McKenna, nature loves courage

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Kids and Baby Goats

This is Deep

The greatest crime in modernity…

What a beautiful encounter