Self Love
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Rationality: Home of The Mind or The Heart?
Many of us in modern, Western society like to say that our feelings are irrational. They are illogical, unreasonable, foolish… When, in fact, our feelings are not irrational at all. They’re probably our best source for the most rational advice ever to exist. We have been using our feelings for decades, centuries, even millennia to…
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Relax Your Tongue
maybe the peace that I keep trying to grasp to remember to hold on to so tightly has always just been the grace that I could be giving myself when I stop grasping relax your tongue
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Film Pictures
I think I’ve spent the last four years trying to figure out who I would be without the influence of my family, the people around me, the media, society… Like if I grew up on a beach alone, who would I be? When in reality, that will never be the case It never is the…
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Worries
The funny part is you never had anything to worry about in the first place. The funny this is when you think you are falling apart, you never are.
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Umbrellas
Little birds find food on the floor next to lovely couples having a glass of wine. An awning covers them as the rain falls here in the cloudy Basque country. A person sets up his piano in the street and plays beautiful, slow music in the background. Couples walk slowly holding hands, in their own…
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We Are Never “Doing it Wrong”
Maybe we never need to learn anything new Maybe we have always had the answers in us in our gut reactions in our intuiotons in our deepest feelings Maybe we don’t ever have to think about how we feel or the way to find them Maybe life isn’t a journey of collecting new ideas things…
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Thank You, Sadness
Revelation: I feel the most connected to myself when I feel sad. After I’ve gone through a really hard time. I realized this last night when I was thinking back to 2022 & 2023 and why I was so content with myself and life. It’s because 2022 was such a hard & sad year for…
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Of Course
Of course you feel like this. Of course you’re angry. Of course your devestated. Of course your terrified. Sometimes, when our critical or anxious voice has been in control of our minds for too long and we need to hear ourselves again, a little “of course” goes such a long way. Of course that voice…
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Can We Trust Our Brains?
I was thinking last night before bed that our humans brains, although capture so much our our attention, perspectives, and views of reality, are barely big enough to remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday. They must not be that smart or trustworthy. Even Albert Einstein couldn’t figure out everything about this universe. Who knows…
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True Integrity – Real or Bullshit?
I’m feeling lost. Still. God dammit. I can feel myself getting mad for losing my way again. But then I ask: aren’t we all a little lost? Do we ever truly know for sure what we are doing? Doesn’t anyone who says they aren’t lost seem like they are kidding themselves? Either that, or they…
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A Note To Our “Best” Selves
Sometimes I look at some books on my shelf and I get so mad. When I’m feeling light, confident, and grounded, I buy books that let me connect deeper to myself. Books that open my mind, make me learn more, dive deeper into life’s questions, and explore the hard things in life. But when I’m…
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A Story About A Maid
I watched Maid yesterday. It was about a young, southern woman who, after continuous emotional abuse by her boyfriend, finally has the courage to leave and take on a year’s worth of a struggle to find independence for herself and her daughter. I saw her as a common representation of many young girls today, chronically…
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Admitting Pain
Next time your in pain, recognize and say, “I’m in pain.” Rather than trying to fix it, put the focus on the compassion rather than the pain. Overtime, that will become your refuge.
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Cells
Something is pushing new nails from my finger beds. Something is healing over the cuts on my skin. My cells are doing the work but how are they getting the energy to do it all? Yes, I feed my body. I give it the energy through nutrients and care.But I don’t know how to grow…
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Just Be
It’s not what you are, it’s that you are. It’s just being. That’s all it ever is. And that’s all it ever needs to be to prove our worth. To prove our power.
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Hold A Part, Just For You
Always keep a little part of yourself. Love others, give to others, depend on others, have others depend on you… But always hold onto a part of you that’s just for you.
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Heroes
You are the hero that your younger self has always wanted to be.
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The Right To Choose
I thought I could be happy anywhere with anyone after finally feeling the deepest contentment in my soul that I completely forgot to ask myself who keeps me happy, what places keep me happy. We are choosing our lives all the time even if we have learned to accept life as it comes. I was…
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Tethering
Our minds may drift off and imagine, fantasize, and leave us behind. But that’s our creativity. That’s where our newness happens, our growth, our rebirth. We need our minds to leave our bodies to wander and explore and learn. This is not a flaw. It is not bad of you to have a wanderous mind.…
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Toe Wrinkles
I’m noticing my toes getting wrinkles. I haven’t looked closely at them in years. And I’m slightly grateful for that because now I can see the difference in them. We look at our faces everyday so we never notice the changes in them. Since the last time I looked at my toes, so much of…
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Wise Selfishness
When we enjoy, others enjoy. When we enjoy a conversation, those we are talking to do as well. When we are enjoying sex, the other person gets more aroused. Not only does more enjoyment bring us more joy but it brings others more joy, too. We must serve ourself to serve others. Enjoyment isn’t selfish,…
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Ask Yourself
But do you want to be carrying that thought with you?
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Our Souls are Always at Peace
but no matter how much fear I have in the present moment or how many thoughts are coming in and out of my head or where I am or who I am with my soul is always at peace.
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How Can We Know What’s Warm or Cold?
Sometimes my inner child screams because it wants to know that is something is bad for me it has a way out. And yes, of course I will know when to leave if something is bad for me. But what if it’s not bad but just not warm? What do we do then? One of…
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We’re Meant to Slip Away
Nothing is sustainable, even joy, or even the best things in life. Nothing was meant to be sustainable. Our bodies cannot have the same exact foods everyday; they need diversity. Our muscles cannot use 100% of their strength all the time; they need rest and recovery to grow. Does this mean that our relationships are…
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What Is Our True State?
Who are you when you are giving and loving to others? What state are you in when your relationships are thriving? Do you feel full, complete, and at peace at the same time? Whoever you are during these times is when you are your true self. We are our true selves when we are the…
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Fantasizing
Why do I always fantasize about me playing another instrument in front of a group of people? I will never, ever, be able to play the flute like I imagine in my daydreams, or whip out a James Taylor guitar solo around a fire. When I leave my body and daydream these unrealistic scenarios, I…
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Who is Powering Us?
who is powering us? who is powering our hearts? making them beat? who is powering our brains? and making us comprehend everything? who is feeling the pain our gut when we think of death? or joy in our smile when we think of life? whoever is powering us is someone, something, that we can never…
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Take Life With You
life will not go your way; you just have to go your own way and take life with you
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Badness
We must fully accept ourselves for who we are before we can service the world. And in order to fully accept ourselves, we have to love ourselves even if we are “bad.” We must pretend the whole worlds absolutely hates us and still choose to love ourselves. We often are told from the beginning that…
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