Madeline
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Madeline
Sex is that paradoxical combination of vulnerability and assertion, giving ourselves up and wanting all the more.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Related to this, I’ve been thinking a lot about obsession, relentlessness, and near-unachievable goals. What makes someone able to reach heights others view as impossible? What makes some better suited for pursuits involving a singular focus?
The answer seems to be: a capacity for intensity. Intensity is a derivative of focus. The word intense is
... See moreIsabel Hazan • Intensity
Boundaries actually cure problems of irresponsibility, domination, and manipulation. When someone who is out of control encounters a person who cannot be controlled, he is then faced with the reality of his own consequences and frailties.
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
The condition of being afflicted with Venus in Scorpio is the condition of being afflicted with desire. Desire is terrifying. If desire were not terrifying, we wouldn’t have emotions such as envy or jealousy or regret. Desire is sometimes so terrifying that it is easier to corrupt something that we so desperately want than it is to feel the weight... See more
Loving Venus in Scorpio
Mars in Virgo is not overly intimidating on the surface. It’s anger is quiet. It doesn’t make these loud declarations of angst. Instead, it will whisper in someone ear the exact things that make that person blunder. Mars in Virgo can make you feel quite small.
Mars in Virgo Power
Eros is a force that doesn’t like to be constrained. When it settles into repetition, habit, or rules, it touches its death. It then is transformed into boredom and sometimes, more powerfully, into repulsion.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Venus in Scorpio sometimes looks at a choice and chooses to go down the harder, more terrifying route. They do this because choosing terror means that they can unchoose it.
Loving Venus in Scorpio
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.