child of the universe

[heavensghost]

Words by Mary Oliver engraved in rock

[coolcarteam]

Ireland, waves crashing, Cliffs of Moher

[financeprincess]

Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

[allurared]

it's been one of those weeks pass me the thinness of my life quote

[allurared]

aughhhh

[araekniarchive]

@mnvart // Kaveh Akbar, ‘Calling A Wolf A Wolf’ // @PinkRangerLB on Twitter // @kosmogrl // @devinsturk, ‘15 Proverbs for the Fellow Chronically Ill’ // Jasmine Deporta // Anaïs Nin, House of Incest // the gentle wisdom uquiz by @inkskinned // Rora Blue, ’Sweet Dreams’ // Hala Alyan, Dear Layal

[marinella-ela]

[artemisiasea]

When Toni Morrison said the grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution… And how she went on to explain that it’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances. The power that has, you know? It’s really just the making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt. In the coming-to-be. 

[berakar]

[artemisiasea]

This is the one.

[seashell-strut]

Q: How do you survive whole in a world where we’re all victims of something?“

Ms. Morrison: Ummm, how do you survive whole–I can’t do this quickly, for one–how can you survive whole and when we’re victims of something, um. You know that’s a nice fat, eastern/western philosophical question about ‘how do you get through’?

Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt, it’s not about that solution.

It is about being as fearless as one can, behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It’s that, that makes it elegant. Good is more interesting. More complex, more demanding.

Evil is silly. It may be horrible but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea: it’s predictable, it needs a tuxedo, it needs blood, it needs fingernails, it’s all that costume, in order to get anybody’s attention.

But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually, if not spiritually and they certainly are spiritually. This is more fascinating job.

We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”

[petaltexturedskies]

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver, from devotions; ‘don't hesitate’

[vesselforsale]

HIPPO COFFE 1978 MUG | LISTING 

[bakwaaas]

how am i doing? oh I’m fine except i’m in a constant state of nostalgia and sentimentality over everyone I’ve ever loved and every age I’ve ever been and every phase of my life and every job I’ve worked and I’m constantly missing people and places that I can never go back to but it’s cool it’s fine

[typewriter-worries]

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

[lifeofrevelation-deactivated202]

[herbaklava]

homes with character bring me so much joy ✨

[feralrizz-deactivated20230802]

The psychological thriller of figuring out what you want and what you’re going to do about it

[ryebreadgf]

favorite tweets

[anddreadful]

Look. Look. I think the hardest thing about your twenties is the shift from getting shoved towards new frontiers of maturity by, like, puberty and education and the logistics of gaining independence, to you having to shove yourself. It’s a mental recalibration from “you grow up whether you like it or not” to “you can and should keep evolving, but now you have to choose it. And you have to choose it a half-dozen times a day in increasingly annoying ways. And this sucks but the reward is that you get to be a person in the world.”

[snakeater-deactivated20260130]

you may think it’s no big deal but every sweet interaction is actually the most important thing in the world. sooo. take that