Without Pleasing

[withoutpleasing]

I’m pretty sure I would never get out of bed if I didn’t care what people thought. But I do care. I care so much I can’t relax for five minutes without feeling guilty.

[withoutpleasing]

"Unfauning is attempting to hold all the complexity, to enlarge our ability to engage in conflict, because conflict is a natural part of being in relationship. Unfauning means entering a complex world and knowing that we don't have all the answers in advance.” -Dr. Ingrid Clayton

[withoutpleasing]

If you fill your cup too full,

it will overflow.

If you keep sharpening a blade without rest,

it will become dull.

If you spend your life chasing wealth and safety,

your heart will never relax.

If you depend on others’ approval,

you give them control over you.

Do what needs to be done.

Then let it go.

That is the way to live in peace.

— Tao Te Ching | Chapter 9

[withoutpleasing]

"Only what is really oneself has the power to heal."

—Carl Jung

[thoughtkick]

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

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"Each of us has an image of what we think we are or what we should be, and that image, that picture, entirely prevents us from seeing ourselves as we actually are."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

[thoughtkick]

“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m trying to find myself.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“I spent my childhood learning how to fear, and now I spend my adulthood learning how not to.”

— Gemma Troy

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

-Alan Watts

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[withoutpleasing]

You're not meant to be legible to everyone. You're meant to be true, and legible to the right ones.

[withoutpleasing]

"I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real life" again at last. This is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and discover what is happening or has happened." —May Sarton

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