Learning to live

[ammava]

Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet and yet somehow he has described every feeling you have had this week.

[ammava]

Roy on power: it doesn't just sit at the top. it trickles down, seeps in, becomes the water you drink without thinking.

[ammava]

there is something holy about a library after dark. something that has no name in any spoken tongue

[ammava]

Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things and then handed us a mirror we didn't ask for and couldn't put down.

[ammava]

[ammava]

you are not drop in the ocean. you are the entire ocean in a drop. (rumi said this and then never had to explain himself again.)

[ammava]

[ammava]

"The great difficulty is to give an account of the world from a point of view that is not one's own." Roy knew. Arundhati Roy always knew.

[ammava]

studying by candlelight because the overhead bulb makes everything feel too certain.

[ammava]

"The wound is the place the Light enters you." - Rumi, and somehow you already knew that before you read it.

[thepersonalwords]

“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”

— Paul O'Brien, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

High Court in India affirms trans women are women in landmark ruling

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh in India has ruled in a landmark decision that trans women are legally recognised as women.

[violently-puppy-deactivated2026]

HUGE GOOD NEWS

the world may seem bleak but PLEASE take time to feel the trans joy and to be happy for our sisters in India

[foreheadkissesforzewu-jun]

Woop-woop! Hurray to the sisters in India! 🎈🌈

[prideknights]

LET’S GO INDIA! ⚔️🌈

[melancholy-novelette]

i found this image to be quite inspirational, thus i wish to share it. you don't have to make something phenomenal much less rather something exceptional. you must first put it out there and tweak things later because you cannot build off of something you put nothing into. some day you'll regret never putting yourself out there.

create beautiful, wonderful things.

~ m.n.

[tlaquetzqui]

Remember, the Latin root of “perfect” is “done through”. It can’t be perfect until it’s done.

[west-end-lady]

To my writer mutuals with love 🫶🏼

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[anti-potato]

sources? a little birdie, et al (2024)

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