heart of war

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant. -Jane Kenyon

[angelicdewdrop]

[borderlinereminders]

Reframing does not have to be positive. You do not have to go from “I am terrible” to “I am amazing.” Sometimes the most healing step is going from “I am terrible” to “I am doing my best.” Neutrality is still progress. It is still a shift. It is still a way out of the spiral.

I'm years into my recovery and I still find only neutrality helps, and maybe that's just what works for me.

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[sontagspdf]

James Baldwin in conversation with Nikki Giovanni

[mournfulroses]

D. H. Lawrence, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

[weltenwellen]

An Interview with Richard Siken

[alwaysbeenjessica]

learning that curiosity is at the root of all that i do, and making space for it instead of running away

[rozieramati]

[the-final-sentence]

Sitting on the floor at the threshold, I give myself permission to stay for as long as needed, and to listen, while outside, the garbage trucks begin their rounds.

Francesca Manfredi, from The Silent Period

[moonstoast]

[wovi]

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susan sontag

[wovi]

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osho

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Btw there is something that literally no one can take from you no matter what and it's a grounded, embodied knowledge and understanding of who the fuck you are

[graceashcroft-deactivated202602]

THE MATRIX (1999) dir: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

[louisegluckpdf]

holy quaternity

[stable-genius-1]

quintinity

[wovi]

[apocryphics]