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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” Or put more simply: Don’t try.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

“The unfaced and unfelt parts of our psyche are the source of All neurosis and suffering.”

“Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so. Pausing in a fit of anger, or when overwhelmed by sorrow or filled with desire, may be the last thing we want to do.”

You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but I was not made with a fire in my belly so I could be out out. I was not made with a lightness on my tongue so I could be easy to swallow. I was made heave half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow.

Trying to convince myself I am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when I was born to use my right

-the idea of shrinking is hereditary

She was a rose in the hands of those who had no intention of keeping her.

“What would it be like if I could accept life—accept this moment—exactly as it is?”

“By cultivating an unconditional and accepting presence, we are no longer battening against ourselves, keeping our wild and imperfect self in a cage of judgement and mistrust. Instead, we are discovering the freedoms of becoming authentic and fully alive.”

“By accepting the truth of change, accepting that we don’t know how our life will unfold, we open ourselves to hope so that we can more forward with vitality and will.”

“Without anxiety about imperfection.” This means accepting our human existence and all of life as it is. Imperfection is not our personal problem- it is a natural part of existing.

“There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy.”

To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.

I know what the fuck I want, and I don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks about it. Especially mommy dearest.