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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. ~Louise Erdrich

Book: The Painted Drum

The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.) The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)

“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bu****it, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”

― Lemmy Kilmister

Loss
Because the pain is real…
“There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything, grief that tears you down. Pain that transports you to an entirely different universe, even while everyone else thinks nothing has really changed.”
– Megan Devine

… While we sit and stare out to the universe, wondering if we will ever be whole again, we have to remember the reasons these people entered our lives. Remember the things they gave to us, good and maybe not so good – they all had an impact.
And in our pain, transported far, far, away from what is happening outside our view, we get to hold their memory, their scent, their gestures. Embedded in our bones, no one else may notice… pain way changes us.
Time has no meaning in grief.
It may be good to be like water, not fear the fire, let it burn and do what we need to do to carry on.
-debbie lynn

“The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
-Rumi

"the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort—if it was, we would literally never get anywhere ever." —vikingfunerals.tumblr.com



artwork by juggleglass.wordpress.com

to have been on earth, just once

Time to rethink what state are we in..

He who abides in a state of emptiness without compassion

Has not discovered the supreme path.

But one who meditates only on compassion

Remains in samsara and does not attain liberation.

Saraha

The beautiful life.... 🫠

The Secret By: Charles Bukowski

Nothing more than earning not to make a living 🤍

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

F**k that!

“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. F**k that!

This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.”

― Patti Smith

L.I.F.E ❤️‍🔥

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."

— Anotole France

Always Celebrate your small wins 🤍

Learn to celebrate your small wins that makes you feel alive, wins like dancing with joy because you learned something new, reading a text or a book that touches you. Enjoying a perfectly made cup of coffee, watching a soulful piece of art, or taking a picture full of life for a moment you want to keep. It’s those small wins that keeps us going after our biggest defeats. It’s your resilience after each let down that is a victory deserves to be celebrated

Metanoia

Be Brave 👑

It’s brave of you to accept things you love might have come to an end.
It’s brave because God knows how hard it is to walk away while you still love them. It’s brave to carry alone all this heaviness of your heart.
It’s brave of you to fight the temptation of checking on someone you’ve missed. it’s hard to fight that urge to know how they’re doing.
It’s brave of you to take responsibility for your own actions, to say i was wrong too, instead of looking for someone else to blame.
Its brave of you to wake up every day all set on mending your broken heart.
It’s brave of you to try again the next day when you have failed.
It’s brave of you to look forward to the future despite being in pain.
I want you to know, that no matter how badly you think your doing. In between the lines of your hectic life, there’re many details which are so brave of you.

Metanoia

Fight your demons when ever , where ever..and keep shining 👑

Ten years ago, I’d have never imagined That i was probably be taking a definitive decision in my life. I hadn’t known back then what i was about to do will change everything for me.

Five years ago, I’d never imagined that there’s actually something beyond that depressive darkness that was swallowing me. I thought my life has ended and little did i know life still carries so much more for me.

Three years ago, I’d have never imagined where i work right now; The places i have gone to; The people i have met and the connections i have made. It’d be like how could it happen? I didn’t even imagine that my words written here and now will be read by thousands of people when all I wanted was to be heard.

Two years ago, I’d have never imagined I’d meet someone whom I’ll actually fall in love with. That they would be someone who my heart will beat faster for. I used to read about love. Hell ! Through my life, few even told me they’ve fallen for me. But I never been there, never knew what it was like. Whatever emotions i had were barely affection. and I thought maybe it’s just how I’m made! Maybe falling radically in love like those books isn’t meant for me!? I couldn’t see him coming and I wasn’t carful what i wished for.

One year ago, I’d have never imagined i’d give him up and move on. I’d have never imagined I’d believe it’s over. I would have never believed that There’s no chance for me and him to work out. He was in my prayers. No, he was my prayer. And I didn’t see. Sometimes our prayers are heard but not in the way we want them to be.

Today I’m here , standing my ground; exhausted yet as strong as ever. Still struggling but hopeful. Hurt and scared but trustful . Constantly Working on myself to be the best version of me.

So who knows..! Perhaps what you’re have gone through; what you’re going through right now; are not necessarily connected to what the days carry for you. But no matter what happens you should keep on going. Keep Fighting your own demons, no it’s not over and no you can still change. Never give up to the moments of despair and sadness. Have faith in a better future. Never allow the days to turn you into a washed up version of that bright soul you used to be.

Metanoia

Spread your fu**in wings 🦋

Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.

Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

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"Rejoice! The purpose of life is joy. Rejoice at the sky, the sun, the stars, the grass, the trees, animals, people. If this joy is disturbed it means that you’ve made a mistake somewhere. Find your mistake and correct it. Most often this joy is disturbed by money and ambition."

— Leo Tolstoy

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"There is no more serious crime than unnecessary war."
Art by Rostyslav Zagornov

Win yourself first, rest will come along.

Happy new year🎉🎊🎇
No matter what keep on reading!!

Always be a dragon!

Limits..

EVOL.VE

What more is less!?

Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me

Art by Beeple

Stand the f**k up even when your legs are trembling..

Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

-Neil Gaiman, Coraline-

Pgotography by
Tamara Lichtenstein

Tell me about it..

Alone again.

“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

― Jonathan Franzen

Into the deep..

/ Manly P Hall about loneliness of wisdom /

Carry it anyway..

Let your emotions run wild..

"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts..."

- Albert Einstein.

Have a conversation.. Have a time.

Read: Everyone

To be or not to be..

Bullet proof 🤍♠

Existence is pain ..

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

You are the aftermath.

You are not the heaviness
sitting inside of you.
You are not the battlefield
where the bodies fall,
and you are not the sound of cannons
breaking the sky open.
You are what happens after the war.

The surviving.
The healing.
The rebuilding.

- Y.Z , for the bad nights

Or you can turn her into your best memories 😂

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

~ Henry Miller

Sometimes it's better not to live in reality.

True!

Take a look around 🦋

If you are scrolling through this page trying to distract yourself from something you don't want to think about. If you are looking for a sign that everything will be okay, this is it. So, breathe. Relax into this moment. You are alive and that's all that matters.

- Note to Others

Unknown

All hope is gone.

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

~Edgar Allan Poe

Stay inside both physically and spiritually!