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The Simpsons - 3.23 - Bart's Friend Falls in Love

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Because life — existence — is suffering. This doesn’t mean tragedy. It means that all that happens contains friction and irritation and a constant wish for more, or for remaining so, or for becoming different.

— Being Nobody, Going Nowhere by Ayya Khema

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Why not consider it this way: In this life you’re reborn every moment. Every single second is a rebirth, a time when we re-create ourselves and our self-concepts.

— Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das

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Of course you will have thoughts in meditation. Thoughts arise all the time, like waves on an ocean. You don’t have to iron out the ocean. Just notice the waves as they arise and disappear on the ocean’s surface.

— Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das

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We meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already in us.

— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

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blows bubbles

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making my 15yo self happy by redrawing his silly homestuck ocs

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day 14

*beating the gremlin in my brain back* YOU DO NOT. NEED THE BLEND TOOL. TO PAINT!!!!!!

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a lot

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Tee hee.

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today i remembered it’s rose’s birthday, and i had to draw her before it was too late.

edit: made a slight change, so i updated the picture

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hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it.

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every time you open your mouth to say that only men are capable of enacting patriarchal violence you're providing a perfect smokescreen to protect female abusers and advancing the cause of cultural feminism and female chauvinism.

you're not doing feminism any favors by blaming all of the world's problems on individual men (many of them largely more marginalized than you) instead of directing your anger at the patriarchy and other sociopolitical structures that keep us all under the boots of our oppressors.

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Buddhist masters teach that within each of us there is always a fire. (...) This fire is caused by the friction of duality rubbing against itself like two sticks.

— Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das

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so I joined the erisol secret santa and this is my gift for @tempest-teacup!! It was a pleasure to draw these guys for you <333 Happy holidays!