Gracie Rotman
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Gracie Rotman
CREATIVE WRITING: YOU ARE THE WORDS YOU USE
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“The ancient Greeks had multiple words for love. Eros for passionate love, philia for affection, agape for selfless love... By naming different kinds of love, they could experience and discuss each one with greater clarity. In a way, having more words for love gave their expression, but also inner experience of love more shades and depth.” - we really do just throw big words around and never get on the same page about them. Like love
“Survivors of adversity often say that owning their narrative, being able to articulate what happened to them, helped them move forward“ - naming things is definitely hard but a form of acceptance, like calling it emotional abuse or CPTSD, it becomes this less scary looming thing
Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Things that hit you like a ton of bricks
The title. Wow
Each ending, no matter how difficult, creates space for something new—something that, in time, reveals itself as more aligned with our journey
The Courage to Close Chapters
What-is-Identity-as-we-now-use-the-word-.pdf
web.stanford.eduRather, the statement “identity is socially constructed” trades on the implicit and unarticulated double sense of “identity” in present usage. It means at once that social categories are socially constructed and something like “peoples’ sense of themselves as distinct individuals is socially constructed.” In part, what gives such statements their force, interest, and subversive appeal is the notion that a social process beyond the individual’s control crucially shapes something that the individual may understand as deeply personal.
In truth, when the caterpillar goes into its cocoon, it actually proceeds to dissolve into a pool of atoms. It lets go of its old form and completely comes undone. That is how it reconfigures itself and transforms into its next glorious form as a butterfly.
Letting Go of the Past So You Can Be Reborn
This kind of discernment is a Way of Life . It grows slowly, like a deeply rooted tree, nurtured through practice, purified through circumstance, fed by the Spirit, shaped by Scripture, and sustained by a listening heart.
Discernment is the mother of all virtues
the foundation of discernment is intuition
Observing Consciousness • What is discernment?
find your soul before your soulmate
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“Because if you don’t meet your own soul before you meet another person’s, you’ll build a home in theirs and forget you ever had your own“
“Because when you know yourself, when you’ve sat in the quiet long enough to recognize the sound of your own pulse, you stop asking love to save you. You stop begging it to fill you. You meet someone, and for the first time, it’s not a rescue. It’s not desperation dressed up as devotion. It’s two people who’ve already walked themselves home, meeting at the door. There’s no clinging. No fear of vanishing inside them. You hold them because you want to, not because you’re afraid of what happens if you let go.“ the last sentence!! Intention changes everything - the why