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Dear Sweet Soul,

We are all hopelessly flawed. We are all perfect luminous beings inside vulnerable hearts and bodies. We are doing our best, sometimes fumbling through near dark trying to make our way. This applies to you too. It’s ok to love yourself anyways.

Love the brilliant light of your heart. Love the dark places. Love what’s cracked and parched. What’s bruised and still bleeding. Take this magnificent whole and be as kind and as gentle with it as you are the sweet souls around you.

Take off your armor. Put down your fists. This is not a war. With grace and humility willingly receive all the love, happiness, kindness, connection, money, travel, opportunity, privilege, praise, and acceptance that this sweet life bestows upon you. Use these incredible gifts to help others.

Keep growing. Keeping learning. Keep opening your heart wider. Be sweet. Work hard. But in this moment please remember: You are good. You are enough.

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jane ysadora, read this when you don’t feel good enough  (via growing-up-indie)

On Leaving.

The dream I have most often is of running. Running as far from you as I can. Where people don’t know about my bad choices. Where they don’t know me as the person who broke your heart and who isn’t good enough for  you. And so I get angry again. Because I tried to tell you. I asked you to leave. To let me leave. To let me figure this out on my own. And you wouldn’t. You stood by me and refused to let me go. That was four years ago. And so in a way, if only to make myself feel a little better, I tell myself that this whole thing is your fault too. But as quickly as this dream comes to mind, it is, like all others, quickly squashed. The world is too small my darling girl. It’s no longer possible to run and not be found. 

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It’s never too late to turn it all around.

Be honest with yourself and others.

If anything you’re doing in life is not what you should be doing…stop. Life is way too short to continue in the wrong direction, and the longer that you do, the less time you will have to travel in the right direction.

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Doe Zantamata (via myquotelibrary)
“Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is perfect and there are no failures. Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening perfectly.”
Orin  (via vituperations)

(Source: nirvikalpa)

“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.”
Alan Paton (via thoughtsdetained)

THE ANGRY THERAPIST: Depression

theangrytherapist:

Yes, the energy of a drowned rat, the motivation of a cookie, and hope unreachable like a drifting balloon. Those are some of the symptoms. But I think at the core, depression is a form of an addiction. You become addicted to escape, the pattern of running away instead of toward. It feels like…

Heavy Lifting

Do you ever feel like sometimes we are just  scared to be the person we want to be?

That our potential frightens us into maintaining the status-quo?

I do. I think about it all the time. 

True Story

I feel like I have yet to encounter a holiday that doesn’t make me depressed. 

“This month I choose to only see positive energy wherever I go. If a problem comes up, I repeatedly say: “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this experience, only good will come. I am safe.” By repeating this, I calm down and give the Universe time to fix the situation in the best possible way for all. My life is a joy! -”
Louise L. Hay (via onherway)

The Little Lies

I found out you contacted my step-sister and my step-mother when we broke up. 

That’s understandable. You had spent a lot of time with them and had started to see them as your family too. 

Then I found out what they said to you. That I didn’t deserve you and that you would be better off without me. 

My own family said this. 

I know grudges do me no good. But this one hurts. And feels unforgivable. Especially now that we’re back together and everyone is pretending the conversation didn’t happen. They don’t know that I know. And it all just feels so fake, so full of lies, and anger, and aggression. 

I thought your family was supposed to be on your team. I thought they were my team. 

Sad to say that I thought wrong.