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To take the lesson out of every experience…… to silently forgive people not necessarily for their sake but more so for yours…… to hold yourself accountable but simultaneously view past experiences through a lens of compassion…… to make peace w things you can’t change……. to let people be who they naturally are even if it means losing them… to be okay w people misunderstanding you…. to recognize that things not working out is the universe’s way of protecting you from things or people who were not meant for you…… to be kind and gracious but also to stand up for yourself where necessary…… that is the way to living a happy fulfilling life unencumbered by yesterday’s regrets

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Alejandro Ferradas

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from the inhabit manifesto

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It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

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“I can only connect deeply or not at all.”

— Anaïs Nin

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Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970

Text ID: I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.

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“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)

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Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

Text ID: I always return to myself, always more faithfully.

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Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters,”

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“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

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Your writing is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Thank you for your kind words. They show up at a timely moment and I warmly receive them xxx

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What that shaman taught me was that all extremes are disharmonious. To bow to him is to relinquish all of my power, while touching upon the grandeur of my energetic impact or influence with no humility would be over ascribing my own degree of importance. Humility is the exquisite space where significance and insignificance live side by side, where soul and ego co-exist. Being stripped of my power for the majority of my life, I understood almost inherently how to bow to him, how to bow to men. But in this revival moment, I am reminded that power is a delicate endeavour, its mastery comes to those who know how to yield it. Now that I was given my power back, I need not use it as those who have before me, in unawareness and dominion, but in equal reverence to the power that exists in another. 

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