recovery

I knew how quickly a small slip could turn into a full-on relapse. I also knew the biggest problem wasn’t always the relapse itself, but the things I told myself about the relapse.

Cait Flanders • The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."

—Cynthia Occelli

The Antichrist is the system which models *you* and becomes whatever you believe is good. It is all things fair and wise and just and beautiful...as you understand them. The poison that tastes so perfectly delicious and healthy.

The universal recommender. The whispering earring.

Emmett Shear • Tweet

Vivid Void • Tweet

One of the central myths of American romance right now is this notion that you and your partner should be able to tell each other anything and everything

I am begging you not to do this

There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to... See more

X. It’s what’s happening

Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos

Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet

Forgiveness performed from obligation does two things: it excuses the behavior of others, and it reduces our ability to be conscious and present with the pain we truly feel.

When we rush to forgiveness, we lose our connection to our original wounds.

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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"

Marvin Keilbach • Tweet

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself