my therapist gave me this and said, "that's you"

1) Find the part of you that is asking the question. Acknowledge it as self-love: It wants the best for you. 2) “Loving myself doesn’t require anything else of me than what I already do.” 3) Play with the question: “How might this thought/trait/pattern/feeling be self-love?”

Once you become aware you’re procrastinating, you no longer are. You’re aware now. You can just go do the thing. Don’t feel like it? All good. Then don’t do the thing. Now it’s no longer procrastination, but reprioritization.

When do you feel most like yourself?

Sometimes, revisiting a song or movie I used to resonate with (or created), I perceive a darkness in it I hadn't noticed before. Then I remember someone told me this before & I concluded they misunderstood the art or confused their own taste with discernment. But they hadn’t:

Here’s a dream I once had that sometimes still haunts me: I was in a train station. Somebody dropped their apple. I picked it up. I gave it back. Suddenly I became aware that this was no coincidence. I knew in advance the apple would fall. Because apple was my cue:

It continues to amaze me how often the difference between “life is overwhelming!!!” and “life is awesome!!!” is just a good night’s sleep, an evening with friends, a walk in the park, or taking a few extra breaks.

"It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans are but defenses, with the purpose all of them were made to realize. They are the means by which a frightened mind would undertake its own protection, at the cost of truth." — A Course In Miracles

Social media is out of control, it generally just keeps getting better and better (if U use it skillfully, find ur boundaries, learn to make it fit ur needs, participate actively with kind, resonant people U genuinely want to play with)

If someone were to consciously deceive you in a way that would induce you to grow in a way you've always wanted, but in the end you'd feel fooled and betrayed, would it be worth it?

Took me 34 years to realize I actually love being in the rain and getting soaked. It was all a psyop.

A lesson I’m surprised to learn lately is that handling things “the mature way” can be a selfish choice (e.g. when others don’t have capacity for it). Sometimes, meeting people in a pattern or mode that is accessible & familiar to them can be a way of giving grace.

Btw the counterintuitive path to this: 1) Say you’ll do things waaaay less often. 2) Notice how you feel in moments you’d normally say it / are pressured to. Learning to feel this is the bottleneck. 3) Do the small amount of stuff said you’d do. 4) Increase slowly.

a person is a system is a science is a mind is a language is a city is an organism is art