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[kafk-a]

T.H. White, in his 1958 retelling of the Arthurian legend in Once and Future King

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

💗❤️💭

[artemisiasea]

"I had heard the spiritual teaching that a person must be in a state of grace in order to receive grace. That rang true for me, so I tried to apply it in my words and actions with pregnant and laboring women. That mother's demeanor, throughout her quick, intense labor (often the most painful), was calm and assured—as long as everyone in her presence maintained the same sense of gratitude, courage, and surrender to something higher than all of us, which she was holding. As I attended more births, I could see how choosing to be grateful could help a woman in pain begin to move away from doubt, fear, paranoia, anger, resentment, blame, or shame in moments of crisis. It can certainly take a huge leap of faith to move to gratitude when we feel that we are being crushed by circumstances beyond our ability to bear anymore. However... when we can come to a moment of gratitude in the middle of a greater storm than we've ever experienced, we may be able to relax a little, and surrender ourselves to receiving help. Choosing gratitude, moment by moment, opens the channel for grace." Ina May Gaskin

[huariqueje]

Bridge to Bainbridge Island, Twilight - Ellen Delaney , 2023.

American , b. ?

Acrylic on panel , 30 x 30

[iamjapanese]

Stefan Johansson（Swedish, 1876–1955）

Afton efter regn（Evening after rain） 1934 watercolor on canvas 56 x 40 cm via

[apoemaday]

Sonnet 89

by Pablo Neruda tr. Paul Weinfield

When I die, I want your hands on my eyes: I want the light and the wheat of the hands I adore to spread their freshness across me once again: I want to feel the softness that has shaped my life.

I want for you to live while I wait for you, asleep, for your ears to keep on listening to the wind, for you to smell the sea that we both loved together, to walk across the sand that we feel beneath our feet.

I want what I love to go on without me, and you whom I love and sang about above all else to continue to bloom, to be always in full flower

so you can complete what my love has set in motion so my shadow can wander the long length of your hair, so everything can understand the reason for my song.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— C.T. Salazar; Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking

[bakwaaas]

I’m not okay

(from ask polly)

[boringangel]

Sotce

[leehallfae]

@/girlglimmer (x) // @/christmas-winter (x) // fireflies - suzanne siegel // “orange and blue” - sarah jarosz // beautiful night - momcilo simic // christmas eve - julia andreevna petrova // @/hunting-brother (x) // @/bluecapsicum (x) // suzanne siegel

[urgetocreate]

Evgeny Lushpin, Twilight, 2000, oil on canvas

[eatpussypraylove]

THE MOMENT BEFORE LETTING GO IS OFTEN WHEN WE GRIP THE HARDEST!

[soracities]

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”

— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life (via unmaiden)

[tropfestier]

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

— C. S. Lewis

[morepeachyogurt]

chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: why can't you see me? / why can't i stop needing you to see me? ]

[sweet-fig]

when brene brown said “vulnerability is the path back to each other” and bell hooks wrote “cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart” and amir levine wrote “if you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person” and thich nhat hanh said “you cannot resist loving another person when you really understand them” and barbara l fredrickson wrote “your past moments of love and connection make you lastingly wiser”

basically that to be loved is to be seen, that vulnerability is the key to a joyful life, and that cynicism refrains us from the beautiful impact of intimacy

[theconsciousmuslim]

Duʿāʾ of Love

Allāhumma Innī as’aluka Ḥubbaka wa Ḥubba man yuḥibbuka Wa Ḥubba ʿAmalin Yuqarribunī Ilā Ḥubbika

“O Allāh, I ask You for Your Love, and the love of whoever loves You, and the love of deeds that will bring me closer to Your Love.” [Tirmidhī]