Self Compassion
by Yufa and · updated 5mo ago
Self Compassion
- This is one of those polarities I'm learning to embrace: that you can see improvement in many things, but still you never really stop worrying; you just get better at dealing with it.
from 2041 by Julian Wong
juliana ong added 5mo ago
- Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more
from pacing by Ava
juliana ong added 6mo ago
- e·qua·nim ·i·ty
/ˌekwəˈnimədē,ˌēkwəˈnimədē/
noun- mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.
from equanimity - Google Search
juliana ong added 7mo ago
thoughts and ways were never anything like mine? But each year I know love and belonging—a love that doesn’t require sacrifice at the altar of acceptance—I become more of who I already am. I am liberated into what Merton calls my “true self.” I believe this is my deepest calling.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added 8mo ago
- I think a lot about the fluctuations of belief—the inevitable up and downs of maintaining engagement with something over long periods of time. Most people seem to think that love is unchanging versus merely enduring, that if you’re really passionate about something you wake up excited to do it every day. I don’t believe that’s true. In fact, it set... See more
from belief over time by Ava
juliana ong added 8mo ago
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