double entendre – "Love rockets // Shot right in between your eyes" – though it's also the chorus, so I find into subservience, which brought the brilliant sketch below (and, you know, all of modern history) to mind In my mind, "I see your light shine through" has to mean an honest inner beauty coming to the forefront Yet the singer certainly isn't God, finding beauty in the sacrilegious act on display here. It's about the grimmest reminder to practice mindfulness you'll get, but I don't think it's any less

Decluttering my mind with a brief glance up from the page Taipei Story  by R.F. Kuang  My mind’s been a bit messier than normal lately (perhaps something to do with my amnesia last I've said it before , but Adrian Tchaikovsky's work continues to take up more and more space in my mind It's a striking look at how important it is to find a sense of belonging, of family. But it's truly great, and I can't recommend it highly enough – find it at your local library!

Male & female, body & mind, heart & soul, bone & cartilage Catching Up This is a direct continuation Harrow viewing a painting of Ianthe, Alecto, John Gaius and Kiriona Gaia, by Noctilia Bodies & Minds Somehow, uniquely and unknown to him, Gideon compartmentalized Pyrrha's mind within his own, in such Bodies & Minds continued: Paul I can't help but wonder whether Tamsyn Muir intended all along for Camilla By the time they return in Nona , the scientifically minded pair have worked out how to keep Palamedes

Lewis' 1942 story The Screwtape Letters after more than a decade and was surprised to find a strong less pleasant and harder to forgo (for that is what habit fortunately does to a pleasure) you will find strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind This relates directly to mindfulness, which both texts (satirically) argue against fervently; being aware If you're interested in reading more about mindfulness and self-improvement, I'm particularly proud of

But if you want to do something and you make room to try it, you’ll find yourself well underway before excited about new topics is the sheer amount of stories currently taking up space in the back of my mind its brethren in this section, The Hyperion Cantos has a special place in my heart for its unique, mind-bending The Masquerade and The Locked Tomb  are never far from the forefront of my mind, and could always show Teixcalaan and The Serpent Gates exist side-by-side in my mind for being strange, queer, women-focused

to make us miserable and paralyze us with existential dread, but to do the opposite: asking us to be mindful To remember our mortality inherently means to remember that these mindless routine will only go on so Ghost artwork by Sam Dunn ADHD & Anxiety This conflict of mindfulness vs. mindlessness is probably the Mindfulness in the context of our limited existence.

Haig, The Humans "You are what you eat" – article on The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and the state of our minds Live now, die later: Catharsis of Apocalypse & Death – taking present solace and finding beauty by remembering Unhelpful Guilt Authority is a Mask – We're all only human, despite what they'd have us think Mindfulness

She enters the Backrooms and finds Clark, who has somehow come to learn that the Backrooms are echoes He’s then killed by an echo of his own furniture selling-pirate persona, and she barely escapes by finding characters were great, and I really appreciate how hard they pushed the therapy angle with Clark needing to ‘find believes he’s just wired this way—and so has become stuck, lost in the infinite labyrinth of his own mind Thankfully, the fraying-mind-as-infinite-liminal-world idea has been done before, and better, in House

In addition to training and keen minds, the Antimemetics Division leverages drugs to enhance the memory It is a mind-virus you contract the moment you think of it, and the book pulls no punches in demonstrating Believe it or not , my first instinct was mindfulness: that we're better off perceiving and tending to

Anno Dracula and other tales have the souls, minds and memories of victims drained by the vampire through To operate without it is to lose reason and mindfulness, driving forward on primal need without a care Both of these ideas ultimately reflect the fragility of our own minds and personalities. As I concluded in my transhumanism series (check it out for more details), mindfulness is key to maintaining Ultimately, I think the theme of reflections can once again tie into our self-perception, mindfulness

But like Annihilation and Kinds of Kindness and so many other stories, Leah seems to have come back wrong Sea', painting by Amélie Peace The Profound Depths While my ever fascinated by speculative fiction mind Scientists, seeing its effect on the crew’s minds? I have no idea, and it’s the kind of bizarre, tantalizing mystery that will keep me coming back to this

You can find the issue here  if you’re interested in giving it a read. Rather than go line-by-line through the song's lyrics – find them here – I'll examine the story and While this could be because he's finding a healthy middle ground between absolute obedience and full It's the continence of bishops with their choirboys en-suite " from ' Kaisarion ' immediately comes to mind times I've discussed these false dichotomies (and just most of my posts I suppose), I'll suggest that mindfulness