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Photographs of musical notes vibrating in a bowl of water.

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If you have a goal to change this year, be sure to build your plan on a foundation of self-love, not self-criticism. You are worthy just as you are. If you hope to change, remember that each little step on that path is a tiny gift honoring your own sense of self-worth. Move forward in the name of care, not condemnation.

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- we are worth saving!!!!

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Omg Suzy you’re so crazy

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

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Bro did a card pull with a random verse. Keep doing you.

Got a free bible from the street preachers today they were like are you trying to reconnect with god and I was like no… I just collect free bible… not very pleased with that answer unfortunately but I was already away…. Got em again… #win #hallelujah

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This☝🏼

holding yourself accountable and tearing yourself down are two different things

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In college someone told me how churches mirror the dominant power of the day. When monarchy was THE authority, churches looked like ornate palaces, when higher education became a path towards power, churches became more academic with lectures and intellectual and philosophical instruction. As media became the authority in our lives churches took on more music and video presentations.

So it follows that under late stage capitalism God’s house looks like a furniture store.

maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores

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There’s no one language to understand the world around us. Cultivate many perspectives if you want to see the whole picture.

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

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reasons.

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reasons.