i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
What I’m saying is that you should be intentional with your life and have a little ambition about something, otherwise you’re just wasting your own time. Wasting anyone else’s time is incredibly disrespectful, why would you tolerate doing that to yourself?
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via Jack Raines
I became an archaeologist of my soul. It’s hard manual labour. It commands you to be gentle in your excavation. It asks you to investigate with curiosity and remain hopeful when it seems like all you’re digging up is more fucking dirt. There is so much power in that dirt though. Shifting it out of the way, clearing that space; eventually, it reveal
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We get stuck in a holding pattern when we believe there’s only one path, or two, instead of those millions of paths that fork and diverge based on our individual strengths and characters. In some worlds you’re happy and curious and feed the parts that make you fully and idiosyncratically yourself. The parts that seek beauty and truth and goodness a
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
— Real Estate by Deborah Levy
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... See moreYou are becoming the one who can sit in her cave and spin her stories; who can take only what is given; who is a friend to any stranger who comes near; who is willing to save her energy from fighting in order to tap into the much, much deeper and more fascinating spirit of allowing; who watches the sky with fading eyes in unattached curiosity about
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My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
Virgina Woolf
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... See moreNo one can love you enough. Build a shelter for the flies and the wasps instead. Make houses for the rats and the owls and the bluebirds. Sit for hours in the shade and watch how these tiny citizens move, floating or drifting or scrabbling over stones, swooping or creeping in rings of shadow, rings of light. Make space inside your liquid heart for
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... See moreOur humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This proces
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