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Poems, Writings, Essays, and Lessons by QNTN

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2:18

Secondhand High | Poem

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2026/02/06

I wanna be free as you are free, unencumbered by how you're supposed to be. Suppose you smart. Hold fast to save face. Must not sound-, look-, act dumb. Suppose you lace yourself, clean- shaven. Combed face to act braven. Maybe this, your safe haven, to act the maven, to avoid the rave when you think it sin to not cap every pen, pen every win, win every grin. But, I wanna be free as you are free, unencumbered by how you're supposed to be. You lean in, in seriousness, to confide, "I

5:53

God Grade | Essay

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2026/01/30

Are we not Gods? Every monotheistic religion believes we’re made in the image of God, that God created the universe. We can only conclude from these testaments that God has become us, and that, through our individuality and soul experience, God expresses and experiences God’s Self anew.Just as a good Rembrandt uses the chiaroscuro of light and shadow, so the universal design uses the chiaroscuro of good and evil, love and fear, to paint the contrasting lines of life with heroes and villains so that

1:28

Friend eternals | Letter

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2026/01/28

This is not my typical letter. No, this is the first of its kind. A letter to QNTN, not a letter from. I have been wanting for some time to publish these, lest my wont to purge destroy the evidence of my having been cared for by so many. Nevermind their insecurities to share what is destined to be public knowledge when we reclaim our omniscience. In the end it is all Us. I will, however, give them the courtesy of humility, anonymity, and will only their words. If you know, you know. Thank you for

1:03

On Leaving | Letter

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2026/01/24

Thank you for my parting presents as I make my way to a new world, a new life — adulthood. In one breath life is easy and helpful. In the next breath it is threatening and fearful. I ride new waves and face myself in the opportunity to evolve in ways I stagnated while in Atlanta. Still, I miss the easiness, the comfort it provided. I know we came here to do important work, though. So let’s get to it. Plenty of time for spiritual “whole being” orgasms together once we evolve a little more. I am happy

5:16

Milk Tea | Poem

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2025/12/02

I had gotten distracted, perhaps on matcha, perhaps in the early peace that is December mornings, perhaps the love of Christ consciousness is upon our inhabitance again: the sense of stillness; the sense of patience; the sense of connectedness; the sense that all will be well as a feeling in the air, not a logic limited by mind. It is a slight tickle of joy. The joyed anticipation awaiting the coming tomorrow, and the joyed enjoyment of the here and now. I was meditating in the

29:08

Vipassana | Essay

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2025/11/19

To my worried co-workers, friends, and family: I have completed my vipassana retreat. To my curious co-workers, friends, and family: allow me to explain what one does at a vipassana retreat. To my future self: allow me to help you remember what you have learned at your vipassana retreat. The ContextLike a circular pool, there are any number of ways we may enter the waters of this subject. Jumping in, we see that vipassana is Buddhist. This practice is specific to Siddhartha Gotama, a Buddha. “A

12:36

100 Sīlas | Lesson

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2025/11/19

Sīla is a Pali word for morality and ethical conduct. In this context, the lessons are “spiritual,” but spirit being spirit is never separate. The lesson of 100 “sīlas” is a reminder. You add to this list as the lessons are discovered. You return to the list as you forget the lesson. * Do not change your mind. | You say you will do this, do that. You say, “I will change this habit.” Then the habit of old rears its head, challenging you in the least, yet the least is enough for you to change your

1:13

As | Poem

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2025/10/30

As I wrap my self around you, behind you, giving to you my warmth, my love, my love, so does God wrap Her Self around us, giving She, for She is love loving love. “How does He do that,” you ask. He is the beauty in the lilies and the breeze from off the seas, the sun from our horizon, the moon silhouetting trees, the life that whirs our belovéd fur childs, the ground that steadies our seats, the food that makes our tummies purr, the teas that help us sleep — these, the caresses, Her

1:56

Rainmakers | Letter

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2025/10/25

Thank you for servicing this work. It does add value to the world. I echo this because it’s so easy for rain clouds — having watered the lands and dissolved again — to discount their value, so rarely seeing the growth their downpours bring.I will trust then, that my pouring out of myself to this work has done good. I trust in this because I know that your pouring out of yourselves has done good. I know this because I am a beneficiary of your good, having benefited from working with you. I write this

1:29

I have the ground | Poem

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2025/10/23

You wreck yourself on poison things, lick led, or so they say. The brain it rots it splits itself, withstanding only pain. The people there make sympathies, but deft you are no more. The hate you have now for yourself has brought you to abhor. You lose your mind, your skill, your will. You think yourself so poor. You wonder if you’ve lost it all, but no, you have the floor. Pushing up upon yourself is earth with all her might. Yet you curse, she’s damning thee, that gravity doth

2:39

Determinance | Poem

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2025/10/19

It, it-it-it,it is determinance, an unshakable, infallible certainty of occurrence— that it not only has been decided but that in deciding it has been determined that it would be, and not only would it be but it be, has been, and always has it been. All there is left to be is its experience, yet its experience requires your determinance. You ask about the sportsman who trains, who competes, who rivals their adversaries. “Who is the one to win over the other when the other can also be the

0:34

三 (San) | Letter

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2025/10/14

I couldn’t help myself. Quentin went coo-coo for Kinokuniya — I think I’m turning Japanese. Dangerous that I have an accomplice in you. I just can’t help buying things I don’t need in the name of a gift for someone else. It brings me so much joy. Thank you for letting you let me bring you joy. It brings me joy,From Quentin 🙂 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit substack.qntns.com

1:54

Dignity | Poem

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2025/10/13

For as long as you take breath from the breath I breathe, that your God’s balloons do breathe your breath, this body of some body’s womb from another body’s womb, from eons back, from tomb-to-tomb, till the time when we were same body, for as long as you are feeling of this world, as long as you are knowing of this place, as long as you are erect, flesh and blood, so we shall see Thee in Thee, giving our good Dignity. That dignity be good, our remembrance of why— which is not merely to live,

3:58

Nostalgia | Poem

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2025/09/24

No - stal - gia. nóstos, to return home. álgos, to pain. This is not quite fear, not quite love, not quite the quivering from nerves above, no, not is it known till it is known, cannot be known till it is felt, cannot be felt till it occurs, cannot occur until you go, till, till you go away, till you are away, away, From your Self, far enough away from self to feel your self when you are gone, when you go on, God not one: gone, gone. Your duty now is the duty that. That. That has taken

77:32

Maha Kumbh Mela | Vignette

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2025/09/07

Greenbrier, AR | Fairfield Inn Hotel Room, 4:30 AMThe call to India comes.A friend venturing to teach. A friend who has taught me. A friend who is overseas in Asia meeting people who themselves are calling my friend to India, to the Maha Kumbh Mela, the occurrence of which is one in one-hundred forty-four years. So the call to India comes as a challenge. It comes as a voice note. Oh my brother, do I have a story for you? Okay, quick context.Today it’s my birthday, and I start the day out—normal,

6:38

No Taste | Poem

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2025/08/24

I tried feeding spinach to my dog today. She turned her snout up to me, her eyes talking, "I have not taste for spinach." For weeks it began, spinach plugins for the kennel walls, aromatics, green wafting, mixing with the redolence of rawhide, spinach baths, spinach chew toys, me whispering, "Spinach, spinach, spinach" into her subconscious mind while she scampered, twitched in her dreams— hopefully dreaming of spinach. But

7:20

My Teacher, Son | Story

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2025/07/01

We sat on the carpet, the rug, the home around lit at dusk on a vibrant evening. We sat there, cross-legged in a quite relaxed, quite cozy living room, by the fireplace, though there be no fire, by the furnishings, though there be but modest furnishings. There be plants about, be art about, but in an eastern way, the space was grounded, of its own nature, calm and inviting, the space its own being. We were grounded there from where we sat on the floor.Across my crossed legs, a kind of divider

2:16

Once | Poem

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2025/06/21

Heavenly Father, Once upon a time there was a man named God. Once upon a time there was a man. Once upon a time there was a boy named Quentin. Once upon a time there was nobody who laid in bed. No. Lied in bed. No. Nobody laid noself down in bed where no lies, caressing noself’s nipple, comforting noself, lying with noself, lying to noself about noself’s beliefs of noself that noself is somebody, or maybe that noself is nobody. No’s not quite sure about noself, where no’s not to be

1:26

Drive | Poem

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2025/06/17

There’s a drive. I can feel the neurons like racing stripes peripheral to each hemisphere of my mind, pulsing, circuit electrons firing down from back to front lining like drag racers down the insides of my morning skull, pulling me, pulling me forward, onward, towards my next so desirous move. I can feel the motor of my mind running on the ignition of dopamine, rewarding me for my positive action to keep this, this, this thing moving, moving along. It’s not compulsive. Braking, breaking all

0:45

Work Friends | Letter

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2025/06/16

Happy Birthday! The privilege to be among your work peoples’ inner peoples. As coworkers, then, we hope your work continues to serve you by inspiring and supporting your abilities to serve. Speaking of service, it is time for us to return your favor hosting us for the India debriefing. We need to hear all about Egypt, Jordan, and beyond by hosting you. From Quentin. P.S. Your handmade Japanese pottery piece is still in transit from Japan. Another reason to schedule a dinner. This is a public

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