loving imperfection
I don’t have all the answers, and I get things wrong all the time. But I no longer fight against my nature. My life is filled with love, with deeply loving people, because I care too much. How could I resent that? My capacity to attach to others also my capacity to attach to the world.
— Ava
Living a wabi-sabi life allows us to come to gentle acceptance of the imperfections in our own lives.
Caren Albers • Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life
Because you’re scared of letting the world see you for who you truly are. Perfectionism is the shield you hide behind, but it’s vulnerability that permeates the hearts of people in your life. Its softness, not rigor, that lets you experience the gift that is being alive.
Let’s say you are perceived in all the ways you want. What is there to gain?
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Let’s say you are perceived in all the ways you want. What is there to gain?
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Emilina Lomas • The Case for Being Cringe
being human was never the problem. the problem was believing that i had to erase the messiness to be worthy of love, when in reality, the messiness is what makes the love real.
how i started liking myself again (after years of trying)
