recovery

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

—life mantra

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

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

newsflash buddy “motivation” is actually a metric for the strength of the narratives/personal myths you tell yourself

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

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

Same direction. Completely different energy."

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.