We are but older children, dear.

dark soul. child of the moon. forever experiencing the violent waves of healing. empath.

[autumnalsonata-deactivated20190]

“Strange days of loneliness and inner fire. What is memory? Can it be inherited over centuries?”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry, written c. September, 1940

[cocoagoddess331]

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”

— Alan Watts (via goodreadss)

[forafricans]

Two girls in close embrace as they skate together. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ©Israel Dejene

[odinsblog]

[guruwithin]

“The autumn purges you can see in nature are just a reflection of what’s happening in your life. That’s why november seems to have something mysterious and foreboding about it. Ferocious winds and rains are purging the old leaves off the branches, putting the trees to rest and into a time of inner reflection, where everything seems grey and dark. They will be reborn in renewed glory with the first warm rays of the spring sun, and so will you.”

— Sereno Sky, “Lonely Traveller 1 and 2" (via hippieseurope)

[stolenfootprints]

The best kinds of friends let you use them as a jungle gym

[khristian-ity-blog]

[theforce]

sharice davids just unseated a republican in the middle of fucking kansas becoming the first native american woman to serve in the us house of representatives and guess what SHE’S ALSO A LESBIAN 

[spacecowboyxo]

She really just did that 👏

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Sigmund Freud: All men secretly REALLY REALLY want to have sex with their mothers

It’s the Oedipus Complex

Oedipus: (Who literally gouged his own eyes out and killed himself when he found out he accidentally had sex with his mother) I’m sorry it’s the WHAT complex

[msbriket]

Oedipus: has a very traumatic experience

Freud being a Man™: you must have wanted it

[cleothegoldfish]

It got better

[catchymemes]

[nativenews]

[niktipolos]

“But just as paying attention to another person fosters intimacy and makes us feel less alone, perhaps scientific observation allows us to enter into a similar relationship across species. By listening, by returning to the grove time and again, by tuning our ears to the sounds of beings unlike ourselves, we begin to reenter what Thomas Berry, the Catholic eco-theologian, calls “the great conversation” between humans and other forms of life. This too can have a grounding effect, can help stave off a different, larger, and more gaping loneliness. If anything is sacred, it is this, I think. And by this I mean all of it: the salmonberries beginning to ripen in the bramble; the scratchy, scolding caw of the Steller’s jay that will nibble there; the long, straight trunks of the Pacific red cedars that rise into the sky’s blue cathedral. The web of life that too often capitalism seems dead set on dismantling.”

—

Elizabeth Rush,

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

[asongwithnoend]

“The field of sociology will not transform for the better from the top; sociology’s character will not shift for the good because of internal revolution within mainstream sociology, nor through the ideas and efforts of professional sociology. Instead, as in the past, contemporary sociology’s transformation into a more critical, public, and social justice orientated discipline will most likely develop at the hands of the countersystem sociologists working with and for socially oppressed groups, those scientists who are often marginalized by professional sociology.”

— Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology by Joe Feagin, Sean Elias, and Jennifer Mueller 

[prezrev]

i don’t get how ppl can hate the rain ? like…..the ocean came all this way to give the world tiny kisses & u treat her like this ???

[3amsouls]

“one of the most bittersweet feelings has to be when you realize how much you’re gonna miss a moment while you’re still living it”

—

[irregularspace]

“if there’s anything worth preparing for, it’s death. Dying well, in a wholesome manner, when the time has come… Ready, accepting, and without regret. No one gets out of this alive, so do it right. There can be no greater accomplishment.”

—

[niktipolos]

“But just as paying attention to another person fosters intimacy and makes us feel less alone, perhaps scientific observation allows us to enter into a similar relationship across species. By listening, by returning to the grove time and again, by tuning our ears to the sounds of beings unlike ourselves, we begin to reenter what Thomas Berry, the Catholic eco-theologian, calls “the great conversation” between humans and other forms of life. This too can have a grounding effect, can help stave off a different, larger, and more gaping loneliness. If anything is sacred, it is this, I think. And by this I mean all of it: the salmonberries beginning to ripen in the bramble; the scratchy, scolding caw of the Steller’s jay that will nibble there; the long, straight trunks of the Pacific red cedars that rise into the sky’s blue cathedral. The web of life that too often capitalism seems dead set on dismantling.”

—

Elizabeth Rush,

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore