Healing
Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
A favorite #birddivination for today. One of the last I made before the deck of 100 went to the printer. Which is finally, finally (after oh so much frustration) out this week and a joy to hold – find it and see more of the cards at almanacofbirds.org
instagram.com“To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.”
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Stephen Levine
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Stephen Levine
A quote by Stephen Levine
“Everything changed for me when I realized that I could take the anxious, scared 11 year old version of myself up on the stage with me. I could take his hand, listen to his fears, and say: yeah, there’s a lot of people out there. yeah, it might be a bit scary to perform in front of them. yeah, we might mess up. but it’s all good. we’ll be okay.... See more
Isabel • on being ready
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen. That person may be our partner, our friend, our sibling, or our child. You can ask, “Dear one, do you think that I understand you enough? Please tell me your difficulties, your suffering, and your
... See moreJason DeAntonis • How to Love (Mindful Essentials)
And when you stop fragmenting internally, you also stop self-sabotaging. It fills you with enthusiasm (which, by the way, literally means to be inspired by the gods) and encourages you to look forward. Hope gives you the courage to lose sight of the shore so you can swim for new horizons.1 Hope gives your soul opposable thumbs to have a better grip... See more
