I dream of never being called resilient again in my life. I’m exhausted by strength. I want support. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin. Not patted on the back for how well I take a hit. Or for how many.

"And everything is yes..." —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

There is nobody and I genuinely mean this that has ever been as deserving of this award as Bisan is. She is the most remarkable human being, her strength & resilience are a guiding light for us all. She dedicated her award to the protesters around the world. What a beautiful soul

Mary Oliver • Felicity

Abraham Maslow on our fear of fulfilling our utmost potential.

“You have to be able to admit the many, many ways you fuck up and blame others and distance yourself every day in order to be a good friend to another flawed human being.” - Heather Havrilesky on friendship

Gregory Orr

Alice Walker wrote in her journal about learning how to set boundaries so as “not to let myself be manipulated into more responsibility than I want.” As the yoga instructors say, strength without flexibility is just rigidity, and flexibility without strength is just instability.

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"A love that cherishes the delicacy of your details."

— Mary Oliver

everything you are interested in connects, because you are at the center of it. trust the direction your taste and curiosity take you in. you are synthesizing behind the scenes what is not yet legible to your conscious mind. walk the path to discover what it is taking you towards

#Jung: "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. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is

Forever circling back to this beautiful passage by Carl Jung.

“I was not always kind, but I / was clear.” Sandra Lim

Christian Wiman:

Confusing compassion with love comes with a risk —

Often you have a realization, a clarity, a dream, a sign that is specifically meant for you — Sit with it, meditate on it, give it time to mature as a new understanding; Let it root within you in silence before you sabotage this delicate process by speaking about it to others.