jiggling fleeting moments

Snippets of Life

[perfectquote]

“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness’s of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

[quotemadness]

“The most important thing to develop in human beings is a sense of love, and an understanding of unconditional love. I’m not talking about the love towards a specific person, but love in a general sense; for life, for the planet, for purely existing.”

— Marina Abramovic

[thedailyzen]

We spend so much time giving ourselves away. Take a day, an hour, just for you. Just chill and do absolutely nothing. Let yourself heal and rebalance.

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

[aspiritualwarrior]

“As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realise this for yourself! Just sit.”

— Taizan Maezumi

[spirituallyminded-deactivated20]

“If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.”

~ M. Esther Harding

[sylviaplathwords]

[understands]

[nomore-thesame]

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[exordiumchronicle]

[scientificphilosopher]

Did you know that astrology and astrological knowledge is not reliant on constellations but planets? We know that the moon, for example, plays a role on our humble little earth, and the sun most definitely plays a vital role, too. Is it possible that the universe is a cohesive, living, and intelligent "thing" and that all "qualities" or "things" contained within said universe (planets, people, emotions, various characteristics, ad infinitum) participate and cooperate in this grand mystery?

The notion that the position of celestial objects, whether it be planets, constellations, or galaxies, would play a role in shaping the personalities of us modest Earthlings is nothing more than cosmic solipsism; it’s wishful thinking driven by our fragile egos and our desire for significance, purpose, and predictability. It’s totally understandable that we’d want to take refuge in such comforting mirages, considering the constitution of our psychologies and the scary, chaotic, random, and brutal reality that is nature, but there’s simply no evidence for their existence. The cosmos is too vast and ever-changing for us to say with any confidence that someone born on such and such date will exhibit such and such behavioral patterns or enjoy such and such fate due to the position of such and such planets and stars. This is pseudoscientific divination in its purest form. The notion itself is rendered absurd when we think about the fact that the universe is in constant flux: our solar system is racing around our galaxy at 500,000 mph while the planets and moons and comets spin and encircle and careen and plummet at velocities greater than speeding bullets. Meanwhile, galaxies barrel through the cosmic vacuum as the universe itself expands faster than the speed of light. Things may appear pretty tranquil and routine from our perspective, but rest assured that we are not in the same position from one second to the next—nor will we ever be again for all of spacetime.

You are right, however, in saying that the cosmos is a grand mystery in which we all participate and cooperate. Everything in the universe is literally interconnected, as we all share a fiery birth from the same nucleus of infinite mass and infinite density. This deserves to be a fact upon which we can draw comfort and spirituality, but it’s a far cry from justifying divination practices or the projection of anthropomorphic traits onto the cosmos as a whole. As the great Douglas Adams said, ‘Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?’

[purplebuddhaquotes]

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Rumi (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[zengardenamaozn]

Meditation steps and tips for beginners

Professional meditators always have a Zen garden: https://www.amazon.com/ICNBUYS-Japanese-Censers-Pushing-Diameter/dp/B01II9PHI4

[fyp-philosophy]

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Democritus (via fyp-philosophy)

[mandalahead]

[postitforward]

Hey, Tumblr.

Today is May 1. The first day of Mental Health Month. This entire month we want to nudge all of you to celebrate triumphs, acknowledge struggles, and just come together. Let other people know they’re not alone. Feel less alone yourself. It’s what Post it Forward is all about.

One of the incredible ways you—all of you—have helped shape Tumblr is with your ability to be open and honest.  It was you that turned this platform into a community, one based on genuine expression, creativity, and acceptance.

Neat. How can I participate?

Glad you asked! Each week, for all four weeks, we’ll be giving you ideas for ways to Post it Forward.

Week 1—Post it for you: How you practice self-care and personal well-being.

Week 2—Post it for each other: Ways you can be there for each other.

Week 3—Post it for reflection: Sharing stories of personal growth and development.

Week 4—Post it for the future: Committing to continuous reflection and improvement.

This week is all about posting for you. Acts of self-care. Here are some places to start:

Post an emoji spell for self-care and positivity. 🌈 🔮 💕 🌱

Share a photo or GIF of something that calms you down. Don’t have one? Here’s one.

What’s the one thing that always cheers you up? Post a photo of it, take a GIF, or illustrate it. Toss a sticker on it, if you’d like.

Never forget that you are valid! Post a selfie with “valid” sticker (see below).

Make a list of things you like about yourself.

Make a checklist of 5 acts of self-care you promise to do for yourself this week.

Make an audio post with a song that helps you zone out and re-energize.

Don’t forget to tag all your posts with #postitforward this month! It makes it easier for everyone to find each other’s contributions.

What else?

We’ve asked our pal Tumblrbot (@tumblrbot) to help out with any extra encouragement you might need. Try sending them messages like “tell me about Mental Health Month” or “what’s this week’s prompt?” Tumblrbot will let you know what’s up, because Tumblrbot is a friend to all of us.

We got Answer Times, all of them taking place right here on Post it Forward unless indicated otherwise:

5/4—Utkarsh Ambudkar, NAMI (@namiorg) ambassador, Pitch Perfect actor, and member of hip-hop improv group, Freestyle Love Supreme.

5/8—AJ Mendez Brooks, NAMI (@namiorg) ambassador, former pro wrestler, and author of Crazy Is My Superpower, a memoir about her experiences with bipolar disorder.

5/9—Brittany Snow and Courtney Knowles, co-founders of Love is Louder, from their official blog (@loveislouderofficial).

5/10—Kelly Williams Brown, New York Times best-selling author, from her official blog (@adulting).

5/15—Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother and co-founder of the Born This Way Foundation.

5/16—Shannon Beveridge (@now-this-is-living), 25-year-old YouTube star. She’ll be partnering with It Gets Better (@itgetsbetterproject).

5/23—The creators of #TheBlackout movement, from their official blog (@theblackoutofficial).

5/25—Anna Akana, YouTuber, writer, director, and activist, from her official blog (@annaakana).

5/26—Mental health advocates Patrick and Amy Kennedy.

We even have some limited edition stickers ready for you in the Tumblr app right now:

<3 Tumblr

[franzkavkas]

For Kafka, as well as for other survivors of child abuse, keeping silent became a way of life and any breaking of silence was experienced as extremely dangerous…Kafka’s childhood whimper was so silenced that as an adult he was unable to cry. He wrote, ‘To me other people’s tears are a strange incomprehensible phenomenon’. Kafka described himself as able to weep only when reading particular passages he had written. As he said: a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Jean Goodwin and Reina Attias, Splintered Reflections: Images of The Body in Trauma (via franzkavka)