the hermit

[eremitologia]

[eremitologia]

I love the idea that we come to know what love is by what it is not -- taking an apophatic theological approach to entering into this mystery.

[doloresdelalucha]

[anitanh]

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

For those who needed to hear it today

[kxowledge]

Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena

[eremitologia]

We all carry the emotional logic of being small, including the desire to be looked after without being overpowered, the wish to be understood without being shamed, and the worry that dependence makes us prey to someone else’s will. Childhood doesn’t end when we grow up because it persists as an internal structure shaping how we understand power, love and needs throughout the remainder of our lives.

Being Small by Tom Woolridge

[eremitologia]

It’s remarkable what being in the energy field of some people can do to you.

I was on the phone with an acquaintance, who called out of the blue and they wanted to vent. They’re going through a stressful time (like many of us are), and in the 50 minutes I was on the phone with them, I began to feel many of the physical symptoms they were complaining of and my own respiratory condition worsened.

I showered after and I kept repeating in my mind that what I had absorbed was not mine to carry. It was not mine to feel. I slowly began relaxing and began breathing better. The neck pain also began to wane.

I am going to have to kindly but firmly decline listening to people vent until I heal. There is a relationship between the decline in my immune response and hyperactivity to other conditions and my ability to hold firm limits with others to not feel like my spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing isn’t being affected.

[luthienne]

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

[eremitologia]

The Map is not the Territory