Power cannot be given.

When we can trust one another's generosity of spirit, silences become companionable. Not everything that's shared requires a response. Instead, we can allow ourselves to enjoy what's lovely right here, right now.

What would be enough? A bit more open, connected, playful, free.

What do you need? Water. A book. To write. To walk. The night. You.

A sublime power, this. When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego, and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don’t know

"Synthetic trauma." What could possibly go wrong with "AI therapists"? arxiv.org/html/2512.0412… #psychotherapy

What do you need? Fuel to burn, a tiny spark, air to feed the flames.

What were the names of those last hiding places that kept you safe but small? - Pathologizing - Seeking approval - Fearing my own knowing

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.” Superb read: themarginalian.org/2024/08/19/win…