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driflloon

girls at rest : minami kinoshita and blesnya minher for kenzo

thepowerwithin

I must find the power within myself to love myself completely.

thepowerwithin

This year I will take much better care of myself. I will love and accept myself for who I am. This year I will make positive changes in my life, both within and outside of me. I will have more courage. More faith. Fight for what I love. And see the light everywhere that I look.

Nicole Addison ~ thepowerwithin

naturaekos

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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lofeel

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c3rvida3

I think people need to understand that part of living a healthy life is having different people who understand different parts of you, so that you don't overwhelm your friends and expect too much of them, or ignore valuable relationships because they feel "incomplete".

We all want to be fully seen and understood, but it's not shallow or meaningless to just have a pal you talk about TV shows with who isn't also, like, your platonic soulmate. That's still your friend! You still enhance each other's lives with your company. Not everything that matters is profound.

I think a lot of you are lonely because you're waiting around for someone who sees into your soul instead of just plain old lookin' at the people in your life, finding common ground, and planting a little garden there. Even if that garden only grows Star Trek fan theories and memes, it's still good.

It just... makes me real sad that you guys can't imagine a friendship where you don't talk about sex and trauma constantly, or that you think these are prerequisites for "real" friendship. Like, it legitimately breaks my heart.

lofeel

kissedbythevoid

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minuty

Life begins where fear ends.

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rainbowtwo

Why Meditate?

‘Why meditate? Sometimes I wonder why we need to ask this question. Nobody who admires a talented artist, or pianist and who would like to become one would say, “Why should I train? Why don’t I just go on stage and play Mozart?” However, when it comes to the basic human qualities that we might admire and hope to acquire - altruism, inner strength, inner freedom to deal with whatever comes our way, emotional balance, not being swayed by hatred and craving and jealousy - we think that they come up just because we want them to, without any training. Our we think that they are fixed, permanent, and that we can’t change them. It is absurd to think that we do not need training to nourish these kind of positive qualities.

We have the potential to be more kind, to practice mindfulness, and to experience well-being, but we only use a small fraction of the potential we have. So that’s what meditation is about: to cultivate the qualities that we have the potential for but that remain dormant, latent, unused, and to develop them to the best of our potential.’

- Matthieu Ricard, Why Meditate, from an interview in the Fall 2010 issue of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.