#indifferent
Text
I get deeply tired because everything touches me, I am never indifferent. Indifference or passivity are impossible to me.
Anaïs Nin
36 notes
·
View notes
Text
I will love who loves me
I will love as much as I am loved
I will hate who hates me
I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me
I will stay indifferent to indifference
I will live hostile to hostility
I will make myself a passionate and eager lover in response to passionate and eager love
I will be nobody’s fool
— June Jordan, Resolution #1,003 in "Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press, 2005, 2023). (via Poetry Foundation)
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
View of The Inn at Charlevoix, Michigan. Printed on front: "The Inn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Mich." Printed on back: "Made in U.S.A. by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis." Handwritten on back: "You know how indifferent I was about coming up but am glad now to be here. The days have been hot but the nights are nice & cool. Have been out so much need by the time I get back I'm thinking I'll need the 'Rest Cure.' Love, Rae C. Levy." Card is postmarked July 13, 1937.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
#the inn#charlevoix#michigan#michigan history#rest cure#1937#postcards#vintage postcards#e.c. kropp co.#levy#inn#indifferent#detroit public library
50 notes
·
View notes
Text
Where are you from?
Where are you from?
It’s something we all want to know. Especially when we meet someone for the first time. Because knowing their frame of reference helps us to understand what they say and do.
There’s more to “where are you from” than just geography. It’s about the culture of a place.
The most important place, culture-wise? The culture that has the most impact on someone, even more than the culture that they’re from?
Is the culture that lives inside of them, their personal culture.
Their personal culture doesn’t just help you understand their frame of reference. Because of the way that it informs their understanding of things, and forms the way they respond to things, their personal culture tells you who they really are.
How can you tell what someone’s personal culture is? That’s what today’s Gospel is all about, when Jesus says,
“The one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things…the one whom God sent speaks the words of God.”
That’s how you can spot it, especially in yourself.
If you’ve ever wondered about your internal culture (and you and I should, because tainting it is one of the most subtle tools the Enemy has to put distance between us and God), about what’s informing your understanding of things, about what’s forming the way you respond to things, here’s how to do it.
Listen to what you’re speaking about. Not the topics. Listen deeper, to the perspective that reveals what we’re really speaking about.
Are you and I speaking the words of God about things? Or are we speaking an earthly perspective?
If we’re angry? If we’re lashing out (no matter how “deserved” it might be)? If we’re owning…whoever? If we’re demeaning or excluding someone? If we’re railing against “them” and how wrong they are?
It means we’re speaking an earthly perspective. Showing the world our fears and our weakness, pushing away the good people and telling the rest how to hurt/manipulate us.
It means that we’re not speaking the words of God.
It means that what’s going on inside us is carrying us away from God. That our personal culture is carrying us away from the good, the kind, the loving, the just, the holy.
So what are the words of God?
They are overflowing with the fruits of the Spirit, with “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
Those are the words of God. And they’re a sign that what’s going on inside us is carrying us towards God. That our personal culture is carrying us towards the good, the kind, the loving, the just, the holy.
Today, listen closely to what you’re saying. Be brutally honest. And remember that nothing you and I say is indifferent – everything is a sign of what’s going on inside us.
If it’s not carrying you towards the good, the kind, the loving, the just, the holy? Then it’s time to ask God for the grace to change your personal culture.
Today’s Readings
#Indifferent#Inside#On the inside#Overflowing#Who we really are#God#Jesus#Catholic#Christian#Church#Catholicism#Moments Before Mass
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Paul Albert Besnard - Indifferent, 1900.
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
#indifferent#tired#living is slowly dying#no use#end it#drained#darkness#dead inside#suicide#kill myself
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
whatever
74 notes
·
View notes
Text
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
#artists on tumblr#ai artwork#dark fantasy#sci-fi art#originally Photoshop piece#the universe only appears hostile#it is worse#indifferent#life feeds on life#so it is#so it's always been#listening to Tool while working my craft
4 notes
·
View notes
Quote
'Don't you care what I think about you?'
'As far as I'm concerned you don't exist.'
'I existed for you once. When did I cease to exist and why? Tell me, I've got to know.'
Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil
#indifferent#inconsequential#dialogue#breakup#estranged#tell me why#quotes#lit#words#excerpts#quote#literature#iris murdoch#the philosopher's pupil
33 notes
·
View notes
Text
youtube
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Word of The Hour: indifferent
English: indifferent 1. involving no preference, concern, or attention 2. neither particularly good, not very bad 3. having no influence or preponderating weight ------------ - Chinese: 淡漠 - French: indifférent - Italian: indifferente - Portuguese: indiferente - Spanish: indiferente ------------ Join our new subreddit for language learners @ https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage
2 notes
·
View notes
Quote
I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. Indifference or passivity are impossible to me.
Anaïs Nin, The Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939, Vol. 2 (Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 1986) (via Make Believe Boutique)
108 notes
·
View notes
Text
I get deeply tired because everything touches me, I am never indifferent.
Anais Nin
10 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
clexa-bones
"I don't know what that means."
divergentchristian
Divergent Christian
justmeandmyships
I am obsessed with too many Ships!!
divergentchristian
Divergent Christian
thesimofmanu
The Sim of Manu