self-discovery
finding yourself, self-knowledge
Supritha S and
self-discovery
You can’t buy your way into insights, nor sell it to others.
When you do this, the intellectual property isn’t truly yours, and suggests the insight hasn’t yet undergone a journey through your soul.
A desire to commoditize insights feeds the ego, and creates the illusion of understanding what you have bought or sold.
Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion.
Keep showing up.
Brad Stulbergtwitter.comAny love we receive while wearing the mask only affirms the belief that unmasked, we are indeed unlovable. Our shame is not resolved. It expands. Any affirmation we receive as mirages only keeps our true selves lurking in empty corridors, longing for touch. Illusions of self do not merely make for lonely souls; they make for hated ones.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Don’t forget this: Nothing is truly ever ordinary. I’m telling you, Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Have you ever told a lie and then forgot it was a lie? When you tell a story for long enough, you begin to believe it. We adorn ourselves with any number of distractions from self.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
No amount of productivity will quench our inner fears about self-worth and helplessness.
Leo Babautatwitter.comSimone Weil said, “Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.” I don’t yet know about the word only, but I think there is a
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
From horoscopes and the Enneagram to the social archetypes of the high school cafeteria, we are desperate for ways to make sense of who we are in relation to the world. It’s troubling that the answer would not be immediately clear to us. But there are parts of us we’ve managed to hide even from ourselves.