To Live is so Startling

to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else emily dickinson

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Little babies sprouting

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Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

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“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

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Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate.”

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You should never feel bad about wanting to change or re-shape yourself into the person you want to be. Just because people have an old image of you in their minds, doesn’t mean it’s your responsibility to maintain that. Saying things like “what will they think of me?” will only place fear in your heart and paralyze you from reaching your greatest potential. You deserve to meet the highest version of youself during this lifetime. You can out grow, re-new, evolve as much as you desire. There’s so many layers to us, unravel and explore all of you.

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Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing

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The flowing water in the brook .. By © Dubi Roman

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Tomás Sánchez (Cuban, b. 1948), Finding the Meditator, 2020. Acrylic on linen, 50.5 x 60.5 cm.

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Karborn aka John Leigh (English-Belgian, b. 1985, based London, England) - Hello. Goodbye, Linocut

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Jordi Feliu aka Jordi Ezquerra Feliu (Spanish, b. 1952, Barcelona, Spain) - Landscape-12  Mixed Media on Cotton Canvas

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Adam D. Thompson

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“You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way.”

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“Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care. Letting go doesn’t mean we shut down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible–controlling that which we cannot–and instead, focus on what is possible–which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.”

— Melody Beattie (via the-red-lotus-blog)