momo's adventures

the mythical mind of mo

[quasim0m0]

Cancer: Sometimes it’s tempting to imagine you’re on your own here — out alone on the wide-open plains, nobody else to rely on, no one to need but yourself. Sometimes, it’s tempting to imagine a whole world of people just like you, and when you find them you’ll never clash, never disagree, never break each other’s hearts. The reality’s always different, of course — messier, more tangled. It’s hard to live in a world with other people, where everyone’s as messy and tender and real as you. Keep trying.

[quasim0m0]

free from love.

love free.

love-free.

love; free.

maybe this is my destiny.

love is, to me, profoundly unbearable

as it renders me completely hysterical

this is what all the songs, poems, and art depict?

this is a black curse, not a heavenly gift.

don’t paint this is as some sort of cure for the lonely

and don’t get me started on the thought of matrimony

chained to another for years upon years

to cure your mother and father’s fears

of living without a next generation

never stopping to ask, or even to mention

“hey, are you happy?” “what did you expect?”

your life is nearly over, this is all you have left.

NO--

leave me free, and let me retire

when i come to my end, as all good things do,

i’ll know i lived for me, love-free and true.

[quasim0m0]

lion in a tree.

the lion

proud, fierce, ruthless hunter

when i see you in my dreams, what does it mean?

running, hiding, knowing you’ll rip me to shreds if i let you

is my pride threatening my happiness?

[quasim0m0]

open letter

do you think routine kills romance? what happens next? can you fix it? if the tension of possibly losing each other isn't there, do the waters stagnate? if the tension of possibly losing each other isn't there, then what is? hey, can you pick me up some tampons while you're out? love you.

[quasim0m0]

Acceptance is a fundamental principle of transformation.  Acceptance allows us to relax and be open to the facts before us.  Acceptance does not mean that we cannot work to improve things but just now, this is what is so.  'If you understand, things are still just as they are.'  Acceptance is not passivity; it's a courageous step in the process of transformation.  Acceptance is a willing movement of the heart, to include whatever is before it: 'this too'.

Jack Kornfield

[tai-korczak]

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

[letmyinspirationflow]

[quasim0m0]

To love him is something, I hold highly suspicious. Like having something, so very delicious-- then being told, to do the dishes.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

[itskyalenotkyle]

This old dude be getting it lol

[shesgotitfknmade]

I can’t believe dis shit. Lmao

[herwildamnself-deactivated20160]

M

[quasim0m0]

dis right here? #swag

[quasim0m0]

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread instead is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone.

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

[citrusina]

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art—we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

- Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays (via katiearmour)

[quasim0m0]

you can't see yourself

"It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself."

[quasim0m0]

[newyorker]

Today’s daily cartoon by Farley Katz.

[quasim0m0]

Advice From A Failure

Advice From A Failure

You do not need to be loved, not the cost of yourself. The single relationship truly central and crucial to life is the relationship to the self. It is rewarding to find someone whom you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself worthy of these things. For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else. You cannot be given a life by someone else. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. Jo Coudert Advice from a Failure  

[quasim0m0]

affirmation

I am aware that I am in a deep process around clarifying my role in my relationships. I am aware that I am up against my tendencies toward obsessing about another. I am aware that sometimes I can be gripped by a desire to have the gaze of another directed toward me. Fortunately this is simple to remedy: I turn my gaze towards myself. 

I acknowledge all of the ways in which I forget to see, really see, who I am and what I offer. I celebrate this next trip around the Sun by offering myself the gift of releasing my need to have others accept me. Instead, I turn my attention towards doing the things that I know will make me feel grounded, accomplished and worthy of my own praise.

[artcomesfirst]

Art Comes First Presents Avec Ces Freres Styling & Clothing : ACF Artist: Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def Photo: D. Pattinson