HUMAN AFTER ALL

We hardly know each other, come in! Take your shoes off. Let's get acquainted.

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Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters,”

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#blue suit

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we’re all just trying to bust a nut in this world whether it be a sexual nut, spiritual nut, health nut, career nut, success nut

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acceptable pet names:

babe

baby

sweetie

cutie pie

darling

honey

unacceptable pet names:

boo boo sweetie oojy woojy poogy poo

cthulu 

sweet devil prince in the pale moon light

Leslie

floor

2% milk

Ella Fitzgerald

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i think you have these mixed up

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all i care about is mutual effort, personal growth and being at peace with myself. anything else is just noise.

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Tips for Listening Well

1. Don’t interrupt. Let the speaker finish what they are saying – and at a speed that is comfortable for them – before formulating your own response.

2. Give the speaker your full and undivided attention. Ignore what is happening around you and block out distracting noises.

3. Pay attention to your own internal dialogue, and don’t allow your mind to wander. This is not the time for you to be judging, or mentally criticising the speaker, or to be thinking about all the items on your to-do list. Focus on what is being said, the tone of voice, and the body language of the speaker.

4. Pay attention to your own body language. Ask yourself: what kind of vibes am I giving off? What kind of message am I sending? The emphasis should be on looking and sounding concerned, interested, focused, accepting and genuine.

5. Be comfortable with silence. Often silence encourages the person to say more. Also, we don’t need to have an answer to every question, or a solution to every problem. Most of the time it’s presence and empathy that count the most.

6. Don’t get drawn into playing the game of “I have it so much worse than you; or my problem is bigger than yours.” In this situation, you are there for them. They are the focus and priority right now.

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Lemme bless y’all with this video

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“We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (via amy-583)

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I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.

— Callista Buchen, from “Taking Care,” published in Thrush

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Art restoration- “The Assassination of Archimedes”

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“There’s a form of nourishment that only you can give to yourself and if you don’t learn the language of how that’s done, even on your last day here you will have remained a stranger to yourself and all those with whom you kept company.”

— Frank LaRue Owen, from “Weather Report,” The School of Soft-Attention (Homebound Publications, 2018)

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“Holding on to past experiences and achievements is a burden. Become a true adult and learn to stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, without needless props.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj