recovery
as I spend more time away from the internet– being with my family, being in nature, reflecting on my childhood– it’s become clearer to me that lots of my frenetic online poasting over the years was a coping mechanism, a response to feeling fragmented, disconnected, unlovable
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
In my experience, at least some degree of nondual realization makes handling addictions WAY easier.
It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said:
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said:
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
Marvin Keilbach • Tweet
Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:
“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?”... See more
And he’ll
Tommy Dixon on Substack
Most people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
We all have very good reasons not to trust ourselves. We’ve all betrayed ourselves badly, repeatedly, shamefully, and knowingly. Show me someone who hasn’t abandoned themselves, and I will show you a child. As we grow into adults, our world opens and we make mistakes. Ignoring your own needs and deserting yourself is a universal mistake.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
There's an idea I think I picked up from Robert Kegan, the idea of an "evolutionary balance" in your personality structure. Or maybe it was “evolutionary truce.” The idea, as I remember it, is that your personality is made of many different dynamic forces, all pulling and pushing in different ways. For most of your life, those forces find an... See more