#words
When you do find those who still feel like home after the drift of time, hold onto them with both hands
Substack • Souls We Were Meant to Find - By Alina Peng - Inarticulate
We need to try so little, huh? When our intentions are clear and we’re tuned into the radio signal of integrity, things simply unfold from that place.
It doesn’t mean we kick our feet up, gorge on pleasantries, sit back and do nothing. It means we align our actions to what integrity points to. We offer it joyously, honestly, and curiously.
And then w
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https://open.substack.com/pub/amberthe/p/let-the-rest-best-be
“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we could treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely love more ... See more
Rosie Spinks • Tuesday night dinner
The sun offers its warmth without concern over who will take it in1. The rain falls without worry if the ground will catch it.
It nourishes us not because it can, not because it wants to, but because it simply is.
Amber Theurer | Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/amberthe/p/the-world-is-a-neighborhood
A word, you realized, is nothing without humanity; it is a neutral, colorless, valueless entity, a fallen tree in a forgotten forest.
To Be A Word
Within the body you are wearing, now
inside the bones and beating in the heart,
lives the one you have been searching for so long.
But you must stop running away and shake hands,
the meeting doesn’t happen
without your presence . . . your participation.
The same one waiting for you there
is moving in the trees, glistening on the water,
growing in t... See more
inside the bones and beating in the heart,
lives the one you have been searching for so long.
But you must stop running away and shake hands,
the meeting doesn’t happen
without your presence . . . your participation.
The same one waiting for you there
is moving in the trees, glistening on the water,
growing in t... See more
Robert K. Hall • Within the body you are wearing - Robert K. Hall - Words of Wonder - Mindfulness Association
I can hold you in my arms and rock you to sleep. domestic work is grounding; it roots you back to source, back to body, back to ancestors. to employ others to do it is a disconnect.
the taboo revelations of a Married Mother
We look everywhere for validation without remembering that our souls are forever begging us to gently lay loving eyes on ourselves.
Amber Theurer | Substack
According to the Buddha, “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” How few of us embrace ourselves in this way! With metta pr
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