Fatima Yasmin
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Fatima Yasmin
Prayer is the voice of longing; it reaches outwards and inwards to unearth our ancient belonging. Prayer is the bridge between longing and belonging. Longing is always at its most intense in the experience of vulnerability…
https://rhfoerger.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/prayer-a-bridge-between-longing-and-belonging/
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
... See moreSharon Salzberg • Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics)
Dysfunctional dating protocols have a profound ability to negatively impact the long-term progression of society. If you only care about interacting with others for short-term benefits you can extract from each other, you lose the potential for solving loneliness, building community, or accessing committed support systems. Society as a whole could... See more
Shreeda Segan • Dangerous Dating Protocols Web
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... See more
Jordan Castrox.com— Grandma, how to do deal with pain?
— With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder.
— With our hands grandma?
— Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking,... See more
The negative side effects from this new way of living are too countless to list. We don’t have the patience for anything, let alone the slow unfolding of human emotion. Ask anyone on a dating app how that looks up close, how it plays out over time. Pundits lament that the global populace is enduring a plague of psychobabble that adds up to
... See moreHeather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
There is a good deal of implicit sentiment around relationships that troubles me, because it assumes a fundamentally defensive posture: You have to be happy first, you should date around a lot, you should reject quickly and on small pretenses, you shouldn’t take dating too seriously, etc. For some even attachment is a dirty word! 1 All of this is... See more
Simon Sarris • quests, failure, desire
To wait for something is to value it, to want it, to yearn for it, but to face its absence, its attainment forestalled by time and circumstance. All true waiting — which is different from abstinence, delayed gratification, and other forms of self-discipline — has an element of helplessness to it and is therefore training ground for mastering the... See more