#learn yourself

[1introvertedsage]

Yes it is

[doccywhomst]

[empathhealingmybrokenheart]

You will be too raw for some. You will be too loud, too big, too fierce, too quiet, too deep. These are not your people.

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[yournewcryptid]

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

[guardian-of-soho]

Still stuck on how Aziraphale ate that meat like he was starving. Like he’d been starved for millennia, and he hadn’t even known it, because he’d never once been fed. But we know they don’t have to eat (nor sleep, etc.), so what he’d been starved for is pleasure. Being present in his body, feeling the joys and longings it could feel. Understanding what taste buds were made for. He hadn’t known; he’d never learned to miss it.

Now imagine what a kiss has done to him.

[jakeperalta]

the thing is I already know that men and society at large hate women. I know that young men in particular increasingly skew right and towards misogyny (I've read the articles, although all I really need to do is spend any time on any part of the internet to see the evidence). but then every so often something like this happens where it still somehow surprises me. like my god.. they really hate us this much.

[millionsknives]

YAYYY YIPPEE WAHOO・ﾟ:*☆ヽ(＾▽＾)人(⌒◡⌒ )ﾉ☆*:・ﾟ

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[creatingtodayinvestinginme]

TIME TO UNDERSTAND YOU! #💯

And the first one in line to understand you is you 🫵🏼 #👣

No one knows what you like to eat until you tell them or why you like it until you describe how you respond to it.

No one knows how you want your haircut, or which clothes you want to wear each day… who can tell you why #you like the career you chose? Who knows what it felt like the first time you skinned your knee or had your heart broken??

WHO ARE YOU??? #🤔

It’s time for you to start learning you!

#gotime #now #today #inthismoment #understandyourself #learnyourself #beyou #thebestyou #livefully #lovefully #worthit #gratitude #thischangeseverything #fearLESS #live and #be #free #perspective #happiness #mindset #love #boba #bossupyourgame #lifebydesign

[tamstame]

Knowing Myself saved me

I think one of the greatest investments that I have made is that of learning myself. Where I once was completely influenced by my surroundings and walked around, avoiding pain, avoiding conflict with people closest to me and unaware that I was completely blinded to myself and my own wants, needs and desires. I was only happy when the people around me were happy. I thought it was true happiness…

[1introvertedsage]

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passerby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

~Vincent Van Gogh~

[americanmarketplace]

Time for a reminder: We are a (CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC) NOT A DEMOCRACY LET IT SINK IN !!!!!!

[catgirlcaliphate]

If you don't think that Zionist spaces--even and especially liberal uwu smol bean Zionist spaces--are absolutely rife with anti-Arabism and Islamophobia,

please consider that might be because anti-Arabism and Islamophobia have been normalized for you all your life to the point where you don't even notice them.

Please listen to Arabs and Muslims who point it out.

[teaboot]

Wait you had autism and still got along with the other kids and knew what was going on with them?? I was never able to do that! I still chose to do my own thing but would have been unable to answer those questions.

I mean I didn't really WANNA make friends for a super long time so it didn't really matter? And if anyone was outright mean I don't think I noticed till like 6th grade.

After 6th a few other kids liked to throw or kick things at my face or steal my art supplies or give me mean nicknames- I remember almost all the boys in my class one year started a thing where if I got within 4 feet of them they'd yell "[tea] GERMS!" and make a dramatic mad-dash escape, and that was kinda hurtful, but IDK how long that was a thing??

Anyhow I started asking them if they had a crush on me or if they were just stupid, and when they asked what I meant I'd just be like "well there's two reasons boys act stupid around girls. Either you have a crush on me, or you're just always this stupid"

And that invariably led to them yelling "I'm stupid, I'm stupid!" or telling me, "I'd rather say I'm stupid than say I like you!"

Which might have been hurtful if I wasn't growing into a mild superiority complex that assured me I was smarter than them, and nicer than them, and there was really no need to desire the approval of stupid, mean people.

(This was, of course, backed up by the fact that my father was one of those mean, stupid sorts of people, and I fully beleived if I could handle him, I could handle anyone my size, and so what if you dont like me? My own dad doesnt like me, am i supposed to value your opinion?)

Then by highschool I got hot, and if one of them started chatting me up I'd just be like "You wrote in my yearbook in 2002 that I was a huge loser. Why would I want to hang out with you"

And by THEN I'd met enough genuinely fun, interesting people who actually liked me that I was never around anyone who openly disliked me anyways.

Not until I started to realize I wasn't 100% a girl and cut my hair off- Then I started hearing other girls whispering to each other that I looked like a lesbian- gasp- which, again, was actually pretty funny, 'cause then I'd just tell them not to get their hopes up 'cause I wasn't available.

Then I graduated, and moved, and it turns out I'm actually kind of hot funny smart and successful, and whenever I fall into the deep deep pit of dumb ugly stupid imposter-syndrome, I remember that as mean as other kids were sometimes, their parents thought I was the best.

So anyways get fucked Gabe from ninth grade, your mom used to give me candy and bail me out of detention. I had the biggest fucking crush on your mom dude

[personaldevelopment8]

Human Energy Structure

in the

Invisible World

Part 4

The Right Essence is located at an arm's length to the right of the physical body of a person. This is, in essence, one of the constituent parts of the Animal nature in man. More precisely, the Right Essence has several qualitatively different functions, the manifestation of which depends on which is dominant in man: The #Spiritual nature or the Animal nature. The Right Essence is closely related to this #world . The main emotional characteristics of its manifestation in man, when dominated by the Animal nature, are aggression, despondency, or fear. If it is not controlled by a person in a proper way, then he often becomes subject to its “attacks.” The latter is felt as a flow of bad thoughts or thoughts that provoke negative #feelings and as a sudden surge of the state of depression. Its attacks are characterised by the narrowing of consciousness to the level of a certain problem as well as by such emotional states as despondency, anger, greed, resentment, self-blame, a manifestation of any #fantasy or #illusion looping of #thoughts on the same problem. But this happens when a person gives the #power of his attention to these thoughts.

https://allatra.tv/en/book/anastasia-novykh-allatra