recovery

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

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

Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.

Renee Solana • Tweet

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

kind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important

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

Will Manidis • Tweet

PAUSE: Postpone Action Until Serenity Enters.

Vivid Void • 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