#on vanity

[popefrancissays]

“Lent is the time of grace that liberates the heart from vanity. It is a time of healing from addictions that seduce us. It is a time to fix our gaze on what abides.”

[fangbangerrrr]

None of us really changes over time, we only become more fully what we are.

"I have hungers, such terrible hungers you cannot know. Lords, I sharpen my talons on your bones."

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[the-most-sublime-fool]

"Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur."

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1. John Everett Millais, The Eve of St. Agnes (1863), detail

2. John William Waterhouse, Mariana in the South (1897)

3. Marina and the Diamonds, "Teen Idle", Electra Heart (2012)

4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (1866-68; altered 1872-73)

5. Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (1993)

[vinceallover]

We confuse our thoughts with generalities, universal causes and processes which proceed quite well without us, and leave behind our own concerns for Michel, which touch us even more intimately than Man.

Michel De Montaigne, The Essays Book III:9, On Vanity

Screech notes ...”and leave behind our own concerns for Michel [that is, for ourselves under our Christian names as individual persons], which touch us even more intimately than Man.

[questingforeternity]

on vanity

People who know me IRL know that I can show some outward signs of vanity: I dress well, I dye my hair, I’m fond of dark lipsticks, my glasses are fairly distinctive. All these things are a pretty solid part of my identity and for a while I was worried that I would have trouble giving them up if asked to by a superior (most of them would be inevitable).

Recently I realised that the only truly troublesome item in the entire above list would be the distinctive glasses, since I’m pretty pleased with how quirky they are, and I do need them to see. I dye my hair, wear makeup, dress well, all to express myself. But if I were to enter a religious order, I wouldn’t need nor want those aspects of my identity to remain because that would be to detract from the identity of the order.

If God calls me to religious life, I can give up my external vanities in a heartbeat. He must increase, I must decrease.

...the glasses might be more of a fight. But that might be the architect in me talking. They’re very Architect glasses.

[transsuperman816]

Miles Walser- On Vanity

“And now I look into the mirror and I like it more often than I don’t                   and maybe it is vanity that I stay and stare and admire                                     but this was rubble                                                                                             and I built it into something I love                                                                           I gave myself permission to become                                                                      I am a mountain built of a million tiny successes                                                    and I will not move”

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Favourite music of 2015, #17: Blonde Elvis, On Vanity. Self-released, 2015.