People overthink parenting.
If you can give your kids unconditional love and not pass on too much of your own trauma, you are way ahead of the game.
Trust the universe.
I recently went through an unexpected and painful breakup and it still reverberates through me.
So when people do their polite thing of asking "how are your?", i might share with them a particular emotion felt at the moment - sorrow, despair, helplessness, sadness, anger etc.
IS LIBERATION LIKE TAKING HALLUCINOGENS? CAN THEY HELP ME SEE THIS?
"I don't have an opinion on hallucinogens.
They are what seems to be happening,
but neither them
nor their apparent effects
mean something."
---Andreas Müller, from the book, "Freedom for No One"
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"If
"You know", he said, "I'm attracted to you because of the programming in the brain that I used to think of as mine. It's all just machinery, evolved over eons and.........."
She when leaned over and kissed him,
he forgot what he was saying.
- Michael Markham