Something Next To Normal

Discernment is the best path to wisdom, and experience, the most bitter

[perrfectly]

[karinanyquist]

it’s true though.

[revdak]

It’s not that the sacred is here and the profane is over there. Everything is profane if you live on the surface of it, and everything is sacred if you go into the depths of it - even your sin.

Richard Rohr. (via revdak)

[mentalpictureportrait]

2am.

[photographersunite]

[kelsi-recovers]

As a child I was taught to believe addicts are somehow “bad people.” However, now that I am white-knuckling through my own sobriety and recovery, I am finding these so-called “bad people” are my soulmates. Addicts are remarkable people. Addicts fight a war within themselves every single day. Addicts are stereotyped and discriminated against. Addicts are beaten down and made to believe they are weak. With all odds against them, addicts do live healthy lives in recovery, and for that, I am grateful.

(via kelsi-recovers)

[mentalpictureportrait]

me: i feel like i'm a bad person, you're not gonna leave me, right?

friend: i would never leave you, i think you're a good person.

me, internally: i must have manipulated them into liking me, i'm a bad person.

[yarter-deactivated20170523]

Flipped / Switched

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

love it

[onlytwitterpics]

[bled]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Parents are the opposite of fake friends. They have your back when you aren’t there, but talk shit about you to your face

[mentalpictureportrait]

Sometimes you fuck up real bad. And all you can do is just......feel it. And know you did it.

[kindlykarlirose-deactivated2017]

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney (via kindlykarlirose)

[archatlas]

A Nomad’s Photographic Journal

Daniel Colvin is a travel, lifestyle, and wedding photographer from Houston, Texas. Every year he disappears for a few months to ‘go adventuring’ and shares the best images from this trips on his website and instagram account. In his own words:

For as long as I can remember I’ve had an insatiable hunger for discovery.  As a kid I wanted to dig into anything and everything I could, from history to art to my front yard (yes, literally - I had a paleontology phase).  That translated over the years into various forms of light rebellion, fueled by an inner desire to branch away and continue that pursuit of discovery on my own terms.  Since college I’ve developed a pretty serious addiction to solo travel, and can’t imagine that itch will ever be fully scratched.

Images and text via

[stability]

[nathanielgundersen]

drugs

[thelovejournals]

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Osho (via thelovejournals)

[weavemama]

I CAN’T WITH THESE DAMN COWBOY HAT MEMES