recovery

You need to be service maxxing, looking for every opportunity to be of service to others and forgetting about yourself in the process.

The more of a substantial person you are, the better you make the lives of those around you.

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

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.

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

It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.

—life mantra

i will destroy old patterns by falling in love with unfamiliarity

one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.

anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief