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We all start as strangers. The choices we make in terms of love are usually ones that seem inevitable anyway. We find people irrationally compelling.
The people who have lost love know that someone else’s love isn’t yours to lose. Someone else’s love is yours to experience, but anything beyond that is just becoming attached to an idea, a hope, a
They know what it’s like to have no choice but to live in the moment, to have to mentally walk yourself through every hour of the day, because otherwise your awareness will be pulled from sifting through what happened and worrying about what will and wondering about where they are and if they even cared at all.
They know that—at first—you’ll spend your time trying to figure out what to do with all the love that is left lingering. And
Do the things that are effortless. Let them be effortless. Find love that’s effortless. You’ll be instructed to believe that success comes from grueling, soul-bending hard work, but that’s more something we impose on ourselves because letting effortless things also be successful ones makes them feel unmerited.
The magnitude of one’s life is directly parallel to how deep their perception of it is. Your life grows as you do.
What you experience is a reflection of what you are.
Focus instead on what you want to do with each and every day of your existence. That’s noble. That’s worthwhile. That will get you somewhere.
Your life is only ever as good as your perception of it is.
All hatred is self-hatred. And everything is feedback.
Everything is a reflection of you because all anything can ever be is what you take from it and all you can ever take from it, and all you will ever take from it, is what you are aware enough to perceive.
Nothing is as it is; it is as you are. (That’s a play on an Anaïs Nin quote.)
Unless you are there to touch and smell and see a flower, it is nothing but random matter vibrating in a void. Your recognition gives it its beauty and its presence. ...
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that anything that feels dense and heavy and “wrong” and “negative” is not a matter of what’s going on outside but what we’re not healing and changing inside.
