recovery
“You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.”
-Albert Ellis
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
— Robin Sharma
— Robin Sharma
Reads with Ravi • Tweet
Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
Forgiveness Prayer
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and... See more
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and... See more
zen eth/acc • Tweet
Recovery as spiritual journey:
First you desperately seek an object to bring you happiness, then, after many face plants, you realize no object can do that, so you stop running and finally face what is, where healing and recovery begin, but then, confronted by your naked wounds without your familiar escape hatch, that too becomes a chase, a far... See more
First you desperately seek an object to bring you happiness, then, after many face plants, you realize no object can do that, so you stop running and finally face what is, where healing and recovery begin, but then, confronted by your naked wounds without your familiar escape hatch, that too becomes a chase, a far... See more
Alex Olshonsky on Substack
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
“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
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
-- W.B. Yeats
-- W.B. Yeats
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The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.