“Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.” 

 

—	Rachel Wolchin

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves 

and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ 

There is an African saying which is: 

Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” 

 

—	Maya Angelou

“Dear Human:
You've got it all wrong.

You didn't come here to master unconditional love. This is where you came from and where you'll return.

You came here to learn personal love.
Universal love.
Messy love.
Sweaty Love.
Crazy love.
Broken love.
Whole love.
Infused with divinity.
Lived through the grace of stumbling.
Demonstrated through the beauty of... messing up.
Often.

You didn't come here to be perfect, you already are.

You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous.

And rising again into remembering.

But unconditional love? Stop telling that story.

Love in truth doesn't need any adjectives.
It doesn't require modifiers.
It doesn't require the condition of perfection.

It only asks you to show up.
And do your best.
That you stay present and feel fully.
That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU.

Its enough.

It's Plenty.”


― Courtney A. Walsh

anonymous asked:

How to deal with emotionally manipulative people?

panatmansam

Observe them. See their motives. Study their techniques. Then withdraw the ego from the situation. Don’t be afraid to leave the room. Don’t feel that you have to buy into their drama or respond to them.
See: Sam’s Guide to Dealing with Difficult People 

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”

“How can you be something when you don’t even know what
that something is? 
You need a number kid, you need to be
specific or else you have no chance at being wealthy.”

The Obstacle is the Path.

Zen proverb

“Love is the Ascending Force

When you act in a loving way and speak loving words,
the Spirit dwells in you and is awakened in others.

At such times, physical reality
does not seem as dense as it seemed before.

When love is present, the body and the world are infused
with light, possibility and celebration of goodness.

The world you see when love is present in your heart
is not the same world that you see
when you are preoccupied with your ego needs.”

—	(via astrologyreadings)

" If someone SERIOUSLY wants to be a part of your life, they will SERIOUSLY make an effort to be in it. "

"She was ready to forgive a lot and turn a blind eye to many things, only to be with him.

But the day came when she realized that she wanted
not to forgive but to admire,
not to close her eyes for certain actions
but to smile with joy, seeing his actions.

Thus ends blind love and started the road to her own happiness."

 

via

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. 

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” 

 

 

—	Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.” 

 

—	Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

" The Cowardly One – will sit on the shore, whispering how much he is faithful to you,
The Weak One – will cry of sorrow,
But The True One – will find you on he’s own… "

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Evtim Evtimov