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dk-thrive · 3 days
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It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of ‘A Course in Miracles’ (HarperOne; October 13, 2009)
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sunrisethoughts02 · 1 year
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You might have disappointed some people; this doesn’t mean you are a disappointment.
you might not have have met some people’s needs; this doesn’t mean you are a failure.
you might not have received the love you needed; this doesn’t mean you are unlovable. just because you did not meet other people’s expectations doesn’t mean you are fundamentally flawed or a waste of space. You are a human who is growing and learning and trying again.
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libraalynn · 7 months
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wordsofwisdomandsoul · 11 months
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positivelypresent · 25 days
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dearfear777 · 4 months
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Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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heartofmuse · 28 days
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I now know who I am and I will embrace it with both hands even though sometimes it feels as sharp as a knife.
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serenagaia · 5 months
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know-the-self · 11 months
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YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples."
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies.
We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe.
The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
-Alan Watts (Selected Quotes)
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dk-thrive · 4 months
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I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.
— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Knopf, January 26, 2011) (via Make Believe Boutique)
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sunrisethoughts02 · 1 year
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This is for all the people who are struggling but just keep getting up and trying. The ones who keep showing up, day after day, even when they don’t want to. The ones who stare at the fridge, willing themselves to cook food even though they want to skip. The ones who get up and get water even when they’d prefer to ignore their own needs. The ones who keep on breathing, even when they don’t really want to, because they trust the day will come when the tightness around their hearts has eased.
this is for everyone, because everyone here today has kept on being. even on the days when they didn’t particularly want to. the hard days and the sad ones and the hurt ones, too. You are still here, trying, and this is a moment of recognition for all the beautiful work you’ve done.
Keep going, love. The light comes back.
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libraalynn · 9 months
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wordsofwisdomandsoul · 6 months
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theshadowworker · 5 months
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Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakes
- Carl Jung
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quietlotus · 2 months
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“In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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