Samar S Kamat
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Samar S Kamat
Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."
This state of not knowing your needs starts in the body and in the nervous system.
Amy Kerr - Love By Design • How to Identify Your Needs in a Relationship
21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
atvbt.com
9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get
“healing” became less about connection and more about control. Less about understanding ourselves, and more about explaining ourselves; justifying every boundary, every reaction, every ~vibe shift~ with a diagnosis.
Gloria Alamrew • Healing Is Making Us Mean
What’s something that’s farfetched now that you think will be common sense/knowledge in 25 years?
Dylan • Questions to Ask Your Friends
“A ‘need’ is essentially a dealbreaker, something that you cannot negotiate on because you have very, very strong feelings about it
Paired • What Are Emotional Needs in a Relationship?
capitalism’s fetishization of “profit” is what creates the surplus and productivity necessary for communistic redistribution of resources.