self-discovery
finding yourself, self-knowledge
Supritha S and
self-discovery
Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.
Any 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
Shed like a snake bb
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.
Oratory Glory
oratoryglory.com
own your voice
If you haven’t stepped out of your comfort zone in a while, it might be time to try.
Experiencing the unfamiliar allows us to practice being agile, because we’re not always able to default to our usual cognitive response patterns in new contexts.
we meet the self through exchanging with Others.
What if the notion of ‘Others’ goes beyond humans - and gives room for the environment to be a mirror in which a self is discovered?
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.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Widespread resistance
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