Where Soul Meets Body…

…and time has no meaning.✵

[lu-k-h]

“La Victoire de Samothrace”. Ile de Samothrace, vers 190 av. J.-C.

[maviyenot]

[aurora-et-vespertina]

I love black kitties so much 💕

[redlipstickresurrected]

CajsaStina Åkerström (Swedish, b. 1967, Bohusgatan, Söder, Stockholm, based Kalmar, Sweden) - Allium, 2025, Oil Pastel on Paper

[random-brushstrokes]

Vincenzo Volpe (Italian, 1855-1929) - Mimoso

[aurora-et-vespertina]

‘Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.’

—Erica Jong

[89rooms]

The principle of least interest is the idea in sociology that the person or group that has the least amount of interest in continuing a relationship has the most power over it. In the context of relationship dynamics, it suggests towards which party the balance of power tilts. The principle applies to personal, business, and other types of relationships where more than one party is involved.

Principle of least interest

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Love is not a business transaction.

And as long as people play petty power moves with each other this way, they will not know love.

We live a very brief finite lifespan. I would rather that the person I love know that they’re loved (in lieu of constantly trying to preserve my own interests) because we will both invariably die one day.

Another day in this life is not guaranteed.

[aoiui]

why do people act like they have tomorrow to love you

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Because most people are avoiding confronting mortality and the transience of human life.

[yasharose63]

Love is dangerous for someone like me. If I love you, I don’t do it halfway. I’d rip my heart out and hand it to you, knowing damn well you could destroy it.

[scribeherself]

[undinesea]

Solitary, nomadic, and forever astonished…

Anna de Noailles, from Les Vivants et les Morts

[scribeherself]

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Spreading the most toxic individualist nonsense as if it constitutes revelatory self-help life advice IS part of the problem. We all belong to each other, to other living beings. Not a single person alive got anywhere or existed anywhere independent of ecosystems or without someone’s assistance at some point.

Sovereignty isn’t attained by denying reality but by recognising it and assuming responsibility.

—Ego Illusions

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“July. All sensation absent. Only magic, internal magic, your sky-blue soul.”

— Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Writings of V. K.; “Visitations,”

[literaryvein]

L. V., writing on water

[indeedgoodman]

[thoughtkick]

“You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are.”

— William Chapman

[1five1two]

'The Last Sunbathing of the Day'. Miho Ichise. 2021.