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"...storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it...”

Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times | Are.na

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

self-discovery

The aloneness I keep referencing refers to a deep acknowledgement of your own brief place in the world, a small luminescent flicker in this great infinite darkness. The light is for you to bear and yours alone. No one is coming to tell you what to want, when to want it, when to leave and when to fight for anything. For some that feels like youth... See more

Beauty

"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"