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life will give you whatever expericence is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness

[thecalminside]

Choose Love, over all. Over sadness, over anger, over frustration, over jealously, over being right. And to choose Love is not to push these things away, but to to feel these things fully, to investigate them fully and to learn what they are here to teach.

[forepop]

my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.

me: i would just give it to you.

my dad:

[androfembot]

in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.

anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.

kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually

[peonypavillion]

lazy kittens

by  桃年

[bough-keeper]

"i forgive myself for what i did" and "i should not have done that" are two statements that can and should coexist. you can forgive yourself while holding yourself accountable. you can understand that you fucked up while also understanding that you're human.

[electricheart]

[mothercain-deactivated20231124]

not now, im noticing the pattern

[smokefalls]

“Most of the time, we think that love means just accepting the other person as they are. Who among us has not learned the hard way that we cannot change someone, mold them and make them into the ideal beloved we might want them to be. Yet when we commit to true love, we are committed to being changed, to being acted upon by the beloved in a way that enables us to be more fully self-actualized. This commitment to change is chosen. It happens by mutual agreement. Again and again in conversations the most common vision of true love I have heard shared was one that declared it to be ‘unconditional.’ True love is unconditional, but to truly flourish it requires an ongoing commitment to constructive struggle and change.”

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bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[hoursofreading]

Sasha Chapin

[podencos]

Love really is a flavor, an ingredient, a fragrance, a texture, a memory and this exact moment in time and a feeling that wraps around the heart and wafts off the body like an aura

[desactivemaintenant-deactivated]

[thekingprincess]

Andrea Tseng

[theascendedpath]

History repeats itself because our internal landscape hasn't changed, individually and collectively. We can change the external environment all we want, but if our level of consciousness and way of being stays the same, we are bound to witness the same results because nothing has changed within us. We don't have to rely on an "authority" for something to change. We are the change. This is our work and responsibility. So how are we treating ourselves? How are we bettering and elevating our consciousness? How are we treating others around us? Are we being loving and compassionate? These are the vital questions we have to ask ourselves cause this is how we start to make real and lasting change in this world.

[shisasan]

Life reflects who you believe you are. What you feed your mind grows and becomes your reality.

Love yourself first and the world will love you back.

[seaoflove]

my dream about monets waterlillies from the latest a love letter to you

[moonstoast]

—hunger & desire

clementine von radics // denis sarazhin // paper bags by fiona apple // kiss by edvard munch // denis sarazhin // climbing by lucille clifton // intimacy by angelica alzona // audre lorde

[typewriter-worries]

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken