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November 12 - December 15, 2023
the notion that thoughts create reality is more than just a nice idea; it’s also a fact of evolution.
Living in the moment isn’t a lofty ideal reserved for the Zen and enlightened; it’s the only way to live a life that isn’t infiltrated with illusions.
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
Bad feelings should not always be interpreted as deterrents. They are also indicators that you are doing something frightening and worthwhile.
The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable for whatever it is you’re afraid of. You’re never upset for the reason you think you are: At the core of your desire to create a problem is simply the fear of being who you are and living the life you want.
Most negative emotional reactions are you identifying a disassociated aspect of yourself.
The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.
The point is not what the routine consists of, but how steady and safe your subconscious mind is made through repetitive motions and expected outcomes.
moods are created by our habitualness: how much we sleep, how frequently we move, what we think, how often we think it, and so on.
It’s the pattern of continually experiencing that thought that compounds its effect and makes it seem valid.
A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.
They know that happiness is a choice, but they don’t feel the need to make it all the time. They are not stuck in the illusion that “happiness” is a sustained state of joy. They allow themselves time to process everything they are experiencing. They allow themselves to exist in their natural state. In that non-resistance, they find contentment.
grief is a faster teacher than joy—but
What you have to know is that suffering is just the refusal to accept what is.
Finding the exceptional in the ordinary is the real extraordinary.
Fire can burn your house down, or it can cook you dinner each night and keep you warm in the winter. Your mind is the same way.
Stop being so cerebral.
Don’t confuse a broken dream with a broken future. Don’t confuse a broken heart for a broken life.
All that exists is what’s in front of me. Potential unrealized becomes pain. The only way to be extraordinary depends on what I do with the ordinary. Little by little. All we ever have is now. If I had the life I wanted, what would today look like? If I had the love I wanted, what would today look like? Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. What are the most important things that must happen today? My life consists of my days—what am I doing with this one? What would my most fully realized self do with today? Am I truly doing the best I can right now? If I didn’t feel tired,
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Nothing and no one is worth suffering for
No such concept comes to mind
Nothing comes to mind
Married with kids and hopefully in a higher position in the company I work for. Or pursuing my dream of being a dance teacher. Or both.
My mom ~ don’t need to explain anymore
Life is an open book, got nothing to hide
Dad’s death. Irreplaceable figure. Carried on living the way he would’ve wanted me to.
Being independent. Continuing pursuing my passion for dance.
That I did become a dance teacher
No one
Open a cafe library
Reading
Listening to music
Listening to podcasts
Dance more
Fiancé’s behavior sometimes
When you’ve lost sight of the magic of the little things, it’s not because the magic has gone elsewhere, only that you’ve chosen to disregard it in favor of something else.
All hatred is self-hatred. And everything is feedback.
Who you were doesn’t have to bleed into who you will be.
But the synopses we spend so much time writing are for characters we no longer are. You cannot always draw lines between what was and what is and what should thenceforth be. You cannot always make sense of your coexisting truths; you can only know that they are both valid. And you cannot avoid good things because somewhere along the line, the character schematic you outlined for yourself doesn’t believe it deserves what you have.
You weren’t meant to be a story that plays out in a nostalgically pleasing way. Life isn’t a sepia-toned flashback. Life is vivid and changing and real and unpredictable. Unchartable. With no plot other than the one we’re living in the moment, here and now.
We cannot be more sensitive to one emotion and not also then experience the others to the same degree.
We live in duality. We exist because of duality.
Existing in someone’s silence is existing in the most intimate part of their life.
Stop living by telling yourself the story that you think other people will be happy reading.
The purpose of a relationship is not to fix us, or heal us, or to make us whole and happy; it is to show us where we need fixing and what parts of us are still broken, and perhaps the most brutal of all: that nobody can do this work, or make us happy, but ourselves.
