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“I have a secret self. It glows with preciousness. I have learned to keep this secret, precious self to myself. Let’s see where it shall lead me.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Diaries,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

saenzdesantamaria

Before everything happened.

f4; 1/80s; ISO 100; 50mm.

Landscape at Crozant - Armand Guillaumin

#autumn #guillaumin #colours #impressionism

metaphorformetaphor

I do nothing but search and not find. That’s how I waste my nights.

Alejandra Pizarnik, from “01 May 1972,” of Uncollected Poems (1962-1972), Selected Poems, transl. by Cecilia Rossi (Waterloo Press, 2010)

thequotejournals

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (via noorshirazie)

luxe-pauvre

At all times, so many terrible things might happen. The standard way for people to cheer us up when we’re mired in anxiety is to tell us that we will, after all, be OK: the embarrassing email might not be discovered, sales could yet take off, there might be no scandal… But the Stoics bitterly opposed such a strategy, because they believed that anxiety flourishes in the gap between what we fear might, and what we hope could, happen. The larger the gap, the greater will be the oscillations and disturbances of mood. To regain calm, what we need to do is systematically and intelligently crush every last vestige of hope. Rather than appease ourselves with sunny tales, it is far better - the Stoics proposed - to courageously come to terms with the very worst possibilities - and then make ourselves entirely at home with them. When we look our fears in the face and imagine what life might be like if they came true, we stand to come to a crucial realisation: we will cope.

TSoL, Great Thinkers, The Stoics (via heyduchess)

luthienne

…something—that I don’t want to hurry seems to be growing in my brain—heart—all of me—whatever it is that makes me—I don’t know…I can’t explain it even to myself.

Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Anita Pollitzer, featured in Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life (via luthienne)

fourteenth

Emily Carr. Happiness, 1939.

azt-lan

Forest, c.1935

Emily Carr

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

Terrence McKenna

#culture #create #inspire #consumerism #freedom #empoweryourself

syflove

pretty

tulipsonmylips

don’t forget to smile at strangers today and make them feel how you felt when you saw these beautiful peonies; maybe even a bit better than that

sugarmoonaki

“I am now 73 years old. I was at Indian residential school from age 11-15. I had to work in the infirmary, where there were many sick and hungry children. I’d steal food like peanut butter and bread to feed them. A lot of kids died there. I had to handle the dead children — wrapping them to be buried. Once I got caught speaking my native language. I wasn’t aware my language was different. My punishment was having four fingernails pulled out. At residential school we all received numbers. I was known as #702. But my name is Sphenia. It’s an Ojibwa name that means ‘on my way’. For many years now I’ve worked as an advocate for abused children. I started a school for indigenous kids in Vancouver called Spirit Rising Cultural Survival School.”

Source

kingofkarrada

The Tuvans are a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia.

Alongside Tibetan Buddhism, Tuvans practice a traditional form of Tengrism - a religion based in shamanism, animism, and ancestor worship. In Tengriism, the meaning of life is seen as living in harmony with the surrounding world. They believe there is no “one true religion” as humanity has not reached full enlightenment yet. That all humans are weak, and therefore shortcomings should be tolerated

- Reindeer - Falconry - Religion

brutereason

When you’re depressed (or anxious, or triggered), staying in all weekend, not answering the phone, binge-watching TV, and not getting dressed sounds great. It might even sound like “self-care.” And aspects of it can be self-care. But self-care is not just about soothing yourself in the moment, it’s about setting up the supports and structures that let you be okay enough in your day-to-day life. So while depression says “let’s watch Buffy instead of doing the laundry” the reality is that tomorrow you’re going to wake up to clothes everywhere, nothing clean, and one more thing you haven’t done–which will add to the guilt and shame that seem to come hand-in-hand with depression. On the other hand, depression-challenging behaviours are hard and not fun in the moment, but set you up to a) have small victories (SO important when dealing with mental health issues), b) have some structure and routine in your life, and c) set up the support and structure to let you deal with the root of your issues or cope with issues that aren’t going away anytime soon.

Self-Care Minimums and Dealing With Depression | The Span of My Hips (via glasshell)