coming alive

“a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – john a. shedd

[thenib]

RIP Carrie Fisher.

Credit: Kendra Wells, in our newsletter.

[kendrawcandraw-deactivated20190]

My piece for The Nib for Carrie. The quote is from her advice column, to another person with bipolar disorder.

I miss you, Carrie.

[quotethat]

Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.

Rudy Francisco (via quotethat)

[payesakinensis-blog]

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via beatsandbrushes)

[thelovejournals]

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.

Nikita Gill (via thelovejournals)

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[clementinevonradics]

This is so sweet :)

[evolution-of-consciousness]

🙏

[ixaac]

[arubasmusings-deactivated202110]

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly NOW. Love mercy NOW. Walk humbly NOW. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.

From the Talmud

Pirkei Avos (Ethics/Chapters of the Fathers) 2:16 

(via arubasmusings)

That last bit –

Lo Alecha haM’lacha Ligmor, veLo Atah Ben-Chorin leHivatel Memenah / לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמוֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה / It is not your duty to complete the task, but nor it is your freedom to withdraw from it

– is something which is not shared nearly enough, something which is not repeated nearly enough, something with is not SHOUTED FROM THE FREAKING ROOFTOPS nearly enough.

(via thetransintransgenic)

I think if I had to describe Jewish ethics, I would start with this quote.

(via martianaviator)

[continentcreative]

Ania Ama for Bliss Lau by Ricardo Rivera

[meanwhilepoetry]

Some days you’re going to feel so unbeautiful. Some days the one you need most is not going to want to touch you, hold you, see you, be around you when you ache, when you need them to choose you without having to ask them to. Sometimes your being a force of nature will go against you. Sometimes putting others before you is going to go against you. And you will hurt darling, how you will hurt. On those days remember how high you have climbed just to feel the sun on your face. How brave you are. Remember sitting on the ledge of that building looking at how far down the ground was and having the confidence in yourself not to fall. Remember staring into the eyes of those who have hurt you and taking away their power by never allowing them to hurt you anymore. Remember clawing your way out of every abyss that you fell into. Now channel that girl, that lioness again. You can conquer anything.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[lifeinpoetry]

She decides God is no good, but he must exist, / he must exist so she can hold him accountable.

Ada Limón, from “The Echo Sounder,” Lucky Wreck (via moncherrie)

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[naturaekos]

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.

Alexandra K. Trenfor (via naturaekos)

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[the-bluespirit]

President Barack Obama’s farewell address [1/10/17]

[lifeinpoetry]

the center of every poem is this: i have loved you. i have had to deal with that.

Salma Deera, Letters From Medea (via wildfairy)

[relatabletrauma]

It costs exactly $0.00 to not ask abuse survivors to prove that they were abused