recovery
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.comWhen David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking
Dylano on Substack
There's so little to be done except let go, follow one's nature, and unfold what needs to happen moment by moment, even in the midst of dissolution and Mystery. I am no longer talking about caterpillars.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
