impactful
ideas that strike me
impactful
“at least i author my own disaster”
— of montreal, the past is a grotesque animal
real!
“i find myself searching for old selves
while speeding forward through
the plate glass of maturing cells”
— of montreal, the past is a grotesque animal
HOLLLYYYYYYY too wild. wowowow
“you can begin right now by inviting your instincts of self-compassion and self-protection to awaken and bloom in your life.”
— pete walker, complex PTSD: from surviving to thriving
oops, she did it again
we live with a quiet, often unspoken tension- the aching desire to be truly seen, understood and accepted , yet simultaneously, the impulse to hide, to hold back, to keep parts of ourselves locked away from others’ eyes.
the paradox of craving to be seen but fearing being known
IT is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.
Thomas Merton • New Seeds of Contemplation
the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.