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nemesisdoll

I want this

ironpour

I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes

girlbloke

I could really do with a reward or incentive

drunkwhenimadethis

I hate to say it and I hate to know it but if you crave intimacy and deep relation you truly have to muster the courage to go first.

drunkwhenimadethis

Something I forgot to mention here is that before even trying to rearrange what's happening 'out there' you muster the courage to go first within yourself. Everything you seek - give it first to yourself in sensation, in imagination. Don't be stingy with yourself. It doesn’t make sense to have a codependent relationship with reality or need appearances (how things appear from moment to moment) to validate you. This is fighting with shadows, that are ungraspable and bound to change. I think when you are approaching others from this false self/ego space that functions with the idea that 'you' are somewhat deficient, inferior, or lacking, you go within and address that. Your internal shifts are not happening in isolation - they're ripples in the same 'water' which everything is of

artemisiasea

I want to keep living my life as a continual preparation of trust that the very next moment could be absolutely divine and astonishing. What’s that saying… destiny favors the prepared… I often come back to the question of if my wildest dreams came true tomorrow, what would I have to do today to be able to receive and live them? What state would I need to embody? I’m also often reminded of Florence Scovel Shinn saying, “One’s ships come in over a calm sea.”

artemisiasea

I want to keep living my life as a continual preparation of trust that the very next moment could be absolutely divine and astonishing. What’s that saying… destiny favors the prepared… I often come back to the question of if my wildest dreams came true tomorrow, what would I have to do today to be able to receive and live them? What state would I need to embody? I’m also often reminded of Florence Scovel Shinn saying, “One’s ships come in over a calm sea.”

stuckinapril

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

processedlives

“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the diﬀerence between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”

— Katja Haustein, “How to Be Alone with Others: Plessner, Adorno, and Barthes on Tact” (via mehreenkasana)