Amina ◢◤

A writer - كاتبة -The fallin’ Angel is the Devil himself.-

[suliqyre]

Being aware is not without its challenges. Greater awareness necessarily means greater compassion, and compassion demands action. Compassion is not content with merely seeing how the world already is and allowing it to carry on producing suffering without end. It will not allow us to hide and enjoy our own safety and security while others suffer in need.

But the enormity of the task before us can be overwhelming. That so many are struggling with unmet needs means that significant changes are required. Changes not just to individuals but also to the systems we have constructed that actively work against compassion. It can sometimes feel like we need to go to war with the whole world just to be able to fix it.

And there is some truth to this, for we often will have to fight on behalf of need. We will have to fight using every possible means available to us. Compassion does not abandon its demands simply because the means are unsavoury or laws will be broken. To act from compassion is to use every last tool in whatever ways it must be used to meet needs and reduce suffering.

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[philosophybits]

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.7)

[philosophybits]

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, in Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century by John Gerassi

[philosophybits]

“One imposes far too narrow limitations on art when one demands that only well-ordered, morally balanced souls may express themselves in it. As in the plastic arts, so in music and poetry too there is an art of the ugly soul beside the art of the beautiful soul; and the mightiest effects of art, that which tames souls, moves stones and humanizes the beast, have perhaps been mostly achieved by precisely that art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 152

[nightlyquotes]

“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It’s easier that way. But that isn’t how people work.”

— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

[nightlyquotes]

“Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again.”

— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls

[qvotable]

I was never really insane except on occasions where my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

[only-cat-memes]

[dailycatsblog]

[neckkiss]

10 Things I Hate About You

[thoughtkick]

“I spent my childhood learning how to fear, and now I spend my adulthood learning how not to.”

— Gemma Troy

[overthink]

Katja Kemnitz

[nightlyquotes]

“Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted?”

— Unknown

[qvotable]

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

Mitch Albom

[areyouevenyourfriend]

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. - Lisa Kleypas

[manboro]

[thoughtkick]

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.”

— Book of serenity