Self Love
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We Are What We Choose To Think
You are not your reactions. You are not your emotions. You are not even what you think. You are what you choose to think.
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Meaning
Life isn’t about always trying to find joy in every moment. It’s about always trying to find meaning in every moment. Life is tragic, and often times things will happen that will cause pain rather than joy. And it seems almost more hurtful to try to find joy in those moments than to sit in…
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For Tomorrow
It’s not about just choosing joy every day. It’s about making the tiniest choices in as many moments as we can find throughout the day that will make it easier to find joy tomorrow.
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There’s Always Enough
Humans are nature, and nature is perfect. And yet, the soul of the universe, as beautiful as it is, is just within a world that doesn’t have enough space for it all to exist at once. So, it created life, a linear, finite home for it to breathe. And we, as parts of life, think…
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The Easiest Thing
the only way to find your soul and to have her sit with you throughout life is to live with her in the present moment and although sometimes that may seem impossible finding her is meant to be the easiest thing that we were born to do
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Letter To My Brain
Dear Brain, Thank you. You are the one who allows us reason and logic. You are how we survive. You are how I move my hands to write, how I walk, and how I kiss my loved ones. Thank you for all that you do. But you are not in charge. Who is? Within us…
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The Gifts Not Meant For Us
does each one of us have a gift or multiple gifts that we are supposed to share with the world? or are we all just here to make the world better in a bunch of small, micro ways? when I think of gifts, I think of athletes or singers or artists who were overly “gifted”…
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Paradoxes
make a plan but then change it everyday critically think but then quiet your mind survive in the mundane but do not live for it listen to your thoughts but act with your gut recognize what you want but accept what life gives you because even if it’s not what you planned it’s always what…
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…Good Enough
Maybe we shouldn’t try to get the most out of life – out of our outfit, our hair, our career… Maybe we should just be searching for satisfaction – for “good enough.” Because both pursuits, one for maximization and the other for satisfaction, give us the same results, except one seems disappointing in the end…
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One’s Work, or One Who Works
It doesn’t matter if you’re a barista, an architect, a teacher, or a world record breaker. It almost doesn’t matter what you are doing with your work. What matters is how you do it. I refuse to believe that a person who works as a janitor is less worthy than a person who works as…
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Self-Help, From Everyone Else
We don’t really need these poems. You don’t really need to be listening to that wellness podcast. Doesn’t the idea of “self-help” being something you buy and read about from someone else contradict the entire essence of the idea itself? You don’t really need that ten-step guide to a perfect life, and you definitely do…
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One in Seven Billion
Accepting that we’re not the kindest person makes us a better friend. Accepting that we’re not the smartest person makes us more wise. Accepting that we don’t have the fittest body makes ourselves seem more beautiful. Accepting that our lives are simply ordinary makes them seem so miraculously extraordinary.
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Big, Bad Wolves
Remember the story of the wolf huffing and puffing and blowing the house down? And how the house of straw blew down when the big bad wolf huffed and puffed but the house of stone stayed? The wolf may be strong and loud and show his teeth and growl, but the stone house will never…
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Hold More Gems
A woman’s nightstand is sprinkled with many little colorful gemstones. Did you know that each type of gem has only one individual type of molecule? One singular structural makeup multiplied throughout its entire body? How beautiful it is to see that when one molecule is multiplied over and over again, not being disrupted or intercepted…
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Gardening Here, For Over There
Choosing to stay and nurture the garden you are in now and care for the trees and plants here within your roots so that they’ll be healthy and happy for many years to come is way braver than jumping to a garden far away, in a foreign land, even if that garden appears to be…
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Floating Away
Why do I always speed up my life when I’m excited about things? Why do I lose contact with my soul and refuse to make myself a nice meal or do my routines or call my friends when I’m excited about something I’m working on? It’s different when I’m at a job and people are…
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Little Warriors
To feel the love of your child means also to feel the heartbreak when a child eventually moves away from their parent. To feel the love of a pet means also to feel the pain of them dying when they grow older. To feel the love of a partner means also to feel the risk…
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Homes
Home. I get it now. I get why people love their homes so much. As young kids, we don’t often get to choose our homes. We don’t get to chose a lot of things in life, really. My childhood self was just living, and going, and doing whatever seemed “best” for me. I never asked…
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Hearing Your Own Heart
You know those moments when you hear your own heart beating? It definitely scares a part of me, as it reminds me of the only tiny organ that is keeping me alive and the fragility of my survival and the nearing of my death. But another part is grateful, as it reminds me that my…
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Grandmas Giving Up
We waste so much time trying to live lies because we are so afraid to feel and live the truths we have within us. We are so afraid of being honest with ourselves. I see so many grandmas saying, “I just don’t care anymore.” “I’ve finally given up trying.” “Now, I’m doing whatever the fuck…
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Terrible Dancers
We should relish the terrible dancers. The people who sing out of tune, those who write incorrectly, our friends who confess embarrassing secrets. They are creating something in this world. Perfection is not creation. Mistakes, trying, failing, embarrassing – those are all part of us adding something to this world. And those who judge the…
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“Supposed” To Be
Maybe the reason why we always are searching for quick joys, fast fixes, reaching for sugary foods, or doing drugs is because we tell ourselves that we are not supposed to feel how we are actually feeling. We think we are supposed to feel happy, and calm, and grateful, and never sad, or upset, or…
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She’s New In Town
I’ve just arrived at the airport in New York. I’ve been traveling solo for five months, and, believe it or not, I’ve noticed that I’ve changed. No way! As I look at myself in the airport mirror, I say, Who’s that hot lil’ cutie?! As I look at the sea of books in the store,…
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Glass Skin & Inner Fire
Each person’s inner light should shine through them like their skin is a bright window made of glass. Like they’re radiating their light out into the world. But many times, relfection gets mistaken for shine. Sometimes we replace our glass skin with mirrors that only reflects the light coming from others. And the challenge with…
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The Point To Life
There is no point to life. But yet, we are all connected. The trees to each other, us to the trees, us to each other. I have a family who created me, ancestors who unknowingly shaped me, and the entire universe who every second is mending me. And I’m mending it back with every breath…
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Candid Pictures
Pictures are existential. Pictures are essential. When we pose for pictures, or edit them, or filter them, we are telling ourselves that we don’t want to see our actual selves, our natural selves. But our candid pictures are us just without masks. Candid pictures, ones where we don’t pose or curate what the photo will…
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Before Making Decisions…
Before you make a decision, ask yourself: Would I be doing this to become closer to an idealized version of myself? Or to become closer to my real, true self?
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Routines
After traveling for five months, sleeping in different beds, meeting all different people, and discovering new parts of my Self, I have had very little stability. The only stability I have had is my body, mind, and Self. And while that has been a great bond to grow and strengthen, once the Camino ended and…
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Meeting New People
Meeting new people is like getting to tell your story over and over again. And when you are asked your story, you get to think about it and constantly question it and recreate it. You are constantly asking yourself: Who am I? What is my story? Meeting new people allows yourself to constantly change and…
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Overthinking
Whenever we aren’t enjoying the moment or are unhappy we are probably overthinking. We should stop thinking, and do something that makes us feel more joy. Not more pleasure, but joy, because we have the right to enjoy every moment in every day no matter what happens.
Ali Walks Around 