cherry valley forever
Xuebing Du
shark vs the universe
taylor price
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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One Nice Bug Per Day
Sade Olutola
todays bird
oozey mess
Claire Keane
occasionally subtle
Cosimo Galluzzi
wallacepolsom
will byers stan first human second
DEAR READER
KIROKAZE
Origami Around
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@ackyoukno
I think that if I were to unleash the uncertainty inside myself, my relationships would fall apart. I trust my construction more than the foundation of my identity. Which is ironic because the foundation of my personality is reality. My construction is what requires context, or clarification. Reality is that which without context or clarification, still exists.
I want to live in a world where if I want to be surrounded by only women then I can be. If I want a space away from men, then I can find one. A lot of times, I just want to hear women and their thoughts and be amongst them in a safe place.
You’re not fooling anyone, Hugh Hefner. We all know it’s you.
Be happy for people. Especially the ones you love. No one is taking what is yours, whatever they have is theirs. The things that are meant for you, find you. Work to find them by all means. But jealousy will never bring you something that isn’t meant for you, nothing will x
“Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”
— Eckhart Tolle
vertical landscapes
Kimberly Crist | | Website
“I’m starved for connection, not attention.”
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The Protestant Reformation, 1517 (Colourised)
Free Elements
There's nothing left to do but watch and adapt. There is no action, physical, physiological, or spiritual that is necessary. Necessity is a disguised attachment and attachments come from a fear of being in a dissociative/purely self-aware state.
For many, this fear is natural due to the emotional "posture" with which they face life (think optimists/pessimists, but more individualized). For many of us, that posture is one of displacing identity. We invest shares of who we are in what we relate to. Once we have found anything we relate to, we equate that thing, tangible or intangible, with ourselves. It's part of the reason we're so good at standing up for and humanizing others in general. We feel as though that which is "related" to us is effectively a physical part of our emotional reality. As much as a favorite angle of our face in pictures. And we enjoy those connections because we're taught that having a network gives us a strong source of identity.
Think about it this way: I like rain. I like rain because of how it makes me feel: cozy, contemplative, etc. Because of this, I prefer the rain. If someone likes sunny weather, and is doing what they can to ensure sunny weather is the norm, this person is keeping me from experiencing who I am in an ideal state. Now, because of that strong desire to form a network, when our "ideals" are threatened, we react as if we ourselves are under threat. Within this subtle change of perspective lies the first step towards defensive reaction. Hopefully you can see how this template for unspoken miscommunication is representative of most conflicts that deviate into the emotional realm.
Yet ultimately, at the end of all the arguing and explaining, no amount of language can justify that which is or is not. Language, before all, is a representative description of reality. Not reality itself. And in this way, we should not confuse the relationship between language and reality. Language most powerful when it has emotional/ideal associations. Sound familiar? We create language in our own image. That's why things like dialects exist. Entire cultures are wiped out in battles of language.
I’m deviating, haha
In summation, I’ll say this: educate and equip yourself to change or accept and allow. Neither is wrong except that you think so.
Upper Dewey Lake trail at sunrise. Skagway, AK. [OC][4000x6000]
Rose-Colored Jupiter : This image captures a close-up view of a storm with bright cloud tops in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter. (via NASA)
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
— Nelson Mandela
Set a course for the vastness, the deep openness that lives within. Steer there.
Steer towards what lies and gleams in the reaches of the unkept heart. Look within.
Look there. Look within with the bravery of the unneeded shield. Boldly look and seek. Paddle inward.
Feel, breathe and play with it all, let it dance with you; within you. Let the dance play out as orchestrated by the expanse of existence, by all that has been and all there will be. Dance.
All dancing and culminating within. Be with the dance, but see. See that it plays and dances and you are the vastness; the stage. And just be.
