[somethingtocallmine]

[libertymai]

study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

[zerogate]

Most of us recycle our basic dramas continually as a way to distract our attention from our immediate embodied experience, which is fresh, unpredictable, not contained in a formula, and which can thus feel genuinely threatening. In fact, as it turns out, disembodiment is a requirement of neurosis. Neurosis itself is an avoidance strategy, and it’s very difficult to sustain any avoidance strategy if we’re aware of what we’re avoiding. Such a strategy wouldn’t serve its function! So we must disembody in order to maintain our neurotic struggle.

-- Bruce Tift, Already Free

[balaclava-trismegistus]

This is the kind of thing you get in a country where medicine has failed both as an institution and as a science

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

Not to be atheist on main again, but like: I really do think this wing of tumblr, as a whole, is getting way too comfortable with being reflexively pro religion. I've been to mass, as a child and as an adult. I'm grateful I was not raised religiously because I can say this for certain: the things that get taught in mass are often hateful and deplorable, and it it is not uncommon for children to develop a deeply harmful relationship with those teachings.

I simply do not doubt that a great many lesbians required to attend mass during their formative years would have developed traumatic guilt and self loathing as a result.

[morlock-holmes]

"Oh, so now having all the adults and authority figures in your early childhood talk about how the being that runs the entire universe will torture you forever in fire if you do something bad is somehow 'traumatic'"

I mean, not every mass or Christian actually teaches that, but like... a lot of them do.

[loki-zen]

and all that without mentioning that this is lesbians, and the catholic church teaches that women are inherently lesser in the eyes of god (sure, they might avoid saying that explicitly but there is literally no other way to take eg the priesthood thing) and that homosexual desire is "intrinsically disordered". gosh i wonder why lesbians might struggle with catholic upbringings

[chosen2begreat]

11:11

[lake-lady]

Glorifying being thin and young won't save you from aging and dying

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[drumlincountry]

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

[krabbie23]

Here're the separate versions of my chiikawa mesoamerica Deites!!!!

Two senior citizens🧓🏿(Coo Dzavui and Tlaloc)

And two sweets beans(Savi and Ehecatl)

[bastrod]

Tlaloc

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[artemisiasea]

[eatmangoesnekkid]

You get a lot more out of your weight training when you quietly weave in the innocence of the erotic. At the gym tonight, I was doing deadlifts and really took note of me saying to myself in my mind “get that last rep, stick out that round activated booty, Indy, squeeze your hamstrings with a tight grip, and exhale sensuously out of your beautiful mouth” while lowkey moaning internally. God! The “uses of the erotic” with conscious and deliberate anointed language works brilliantly every time —ended up getting like 4 additional reps. Ha! —India Ame’ye

[cryptonature]

Do you ever look at a sparrow and think, "that bird is really wasting her potential?"

No. That thought would clang against the simple dignity we sense in nature, the dignity of a living thing inhabiting a life.

You are that sparrow. You are the branch she rests upon.

You embody that same dignity.

[64mpg]

the veil in my mind that keeps my past lives at bay is thin and that’s why i am the way that i am

[widefuturesss]

If we don’t consider ourselves redeemable then we are totally hopeless. We are especially hopeless not to realize that we have the grace to become bigger than our darkness. We don’t need to always dwell with the pain we exert onto ourselves and others. We need to exercise our will to become more than the violence, we have to stop the cycle

More time the journey of our destiny loooks like a spiral and I’m continuously fluctuating in and out of the wake. I am on this wheel of self actualization beyond captivity. I just dey spin, expanding and shrinking into my ancestral desires - I wanna be more than this decay. I believe in Nature and it’s soul called Change

[widefuturesss]

I’m not perfect but I’m swimming in grace