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The more self-regulated you become, the more you realize that communicating your feelings isn’t an emergency. You can sit with it. Sleep on it. Let the wave pass. You don’t have to rush into expression just because the emotion feels loud.
from @njavwastevens on threads | a reminder that you can work towards & change what feels impossible to, don’t let yourself fall into personal stagnancy.
you aren't making any friends because you're not sharing anything meaningful about yourself in conversations. strangers have no way to get to know you. no information to latch onto to form a connection.
have the audacity to believe that people are curious about you. they want to hear from you. share about a vacation you... See more
Adele Blochx.combe a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.comIf we had free and open access to the other side, how would that change our lives? Are there ways we could use this access that we’ve not yet considered? How could we be more intentional — and creative — in connecting to the divine? And how could we use this divine connection more intentionally and thrillingly in our art?
Gia Prism • Messages From The Stars: How the 20th Century’s Greatest Creatives and Visionaries Lived Their Art, and What They Have to Teach Us From Beyond the Veil
The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always because you are afraid. The fear, the resistance, is very insidious. It doesn’t leave a lot of fingerprints, but the person who manages to make a movie short that blows everyone away but can’t raise
... See more99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
— “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock
... See moreCut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
— Pat Barker
— Pat Barker