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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\\ Words of Wisdom - February 18, 2026 ❄️

“We can be righteous, but we cannot be righteous and be one with God.”

Source: Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 101 – Separation, Lust and Kali

Duane Michals: Apartamento Magazine issue #29

Via White Crane Institute \\ -The Sexual Perspective, Emmanuel Cooper

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This Day in Gay History

February 18

Today's Gay Wisdom 2025 - "The knowledge that a [person] was or was not homosexual is not intended to "explain" their work nor is it to suggest a particular context in which to view [them]. It is, rather, the start of a process to look again and recover what has been traditionally been omitted from ...history using this to inform the present, What we can do most profitably is reexamine the work and lives of [people] to search out from secrecy, prejudice, distortion and myth the homosexual presence and its wide significance in identifying homosexual expression." -- The Sexual Perspective, Emmanuel Cooper
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Via White Crane Institute \\ DUANE MICHALS

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This Day in Gay History

Duane Michals/Photo credit: Raymond Adams

1932 -

DUANE MICHALS is an American photographer born on this date. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.

Michals's interest in art began at age 14 while attending watercolor university classes at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. In 1953, he received a B.A. from the University of Denver. In 1956, after two years in the Army, he went on to study at the Parsons School of Design with a plan to become a graphic designer; however, he did not complete his studies.

He describes his photographic skills as "completely self-taught." In 1958, while on a holiday in the USSR he discovered an interest in photography. The photographs he made during this trip became his first exhibition held in 1963 at the Underground Gallery in New York City.

Though he has not been involved in gay civil rights, his photography has addressed gay themes. In discussing his notion of the artist's relationship to politics and power however, Michals feels ultimately that aspirations are useless.

Michals cites Balthus, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Eakins, René Magritte, and Walt Whitman as influences on his art. In turn, he has influenced photographers such as David Levinthal and Francesca Woodman.

He is noted for two innovations in artistic photography developed in the 1960s and 1970s. First, he "[told] a story through a series of photos" as in his 1970 book Sequences. Second, he handwrote text near his photographs, thereby giving information that the image itself could not convey.

Michals grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in New York City. He was raised Catholic.

Michals' partner Frederick Gorrée died in 2017. The two were together since 1960.

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RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from False Speech

False speech is unhealthy. Refraining from false speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning false speech, one dwells refraining from false speech, a truth-speaker, one to be relied on, trustworthy, dependable, not a deceiver of the world. One does not in full awareness speak falsehood for one’s own ends, or for another’s ends, or for some trifling worldly end. (DN 1) One practices thus: "Others may speak falsely, but I shall abstain from false speech." (MN 8)

Such speech as you know to be true and correct but unbeneficial, and which is welcome and agreeable to others—do not utter such speech. (MN 58)

Reflection

Speaking truthfully is a habit that can be learned, even if we have previously learned the habit of speaking untruthfully. It is a matter of bringing full awareness to your speech and its consequences. Often there may appear to be a short-term benefit from speaking falsely, but the Buddha is pointing out the long-term harm that false speech does to your character. In the long run the lack of integrity is unhealthy.

Daily Practice

This passage is urging us to speak only when what we say is likely to have a beneficial effect on another person or on the situation at hand. It is not enough to say things that are agreeable to others, even if they are true. Flattery, for example, might have an unbeneficial effect on someone by inflating their sense of themselves. Practice speaking only those words that are going to be helpful.

Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Bodily Action
One week from today: Refraining from Malicious Speech

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