Fatima Yasmin
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Fatima Yasmin
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreAnd yet, no matter what bravery we show to the world, most of us have recurring doubts about our worth. We worry that we’re not desirable enough, good enough, successful enough. We fear we’re not enough, period. Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation, one from which we could extend love out into the
... See moreSharon Salzberg • Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Self-loathing is a rampant virus in our contemporary culture — so prevalent as to have become the default setting in most of our minds. Seldom do we even stop to question whether it is normal or healthy to live within a consciousness that is constantly attacking, judging, and insulting itself. But to condemn yourself as unlovable is to swallow a te... See more
Elizabeth Gilbert • Welcome to LETTERS FROM LOVE
Self-Love Self-love is the quality that determines how much we can be friends with ourselves and, day to day, remain on our own side.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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
... See moreSharon Salzberg • Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics)
The girl who had sex with 100 guys in 24hr is the logical conclusion of our age's shift toward algorithmic, numbers-based value—what Kierkegaard called "levelling": A "silent and mathematical" process that destroys the embodied and specific individual, and replaces it with totalizing abstraction. The girl literally imagined having sex with Numbers—... See more
Jordan Castrox.comLooking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more
modernity tells us kids are a luxury. dating is a luxury. relationality is luxury. you have the earn it. the individual has to earn. once they are rich, hot, smart, mature enough, they won't harm their partner. the poor, ugly, and god forbid "codependent" should stay home
yatharth ༺༒༻x.com"We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. But searching for a soul ma... See more