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Glennon Doyle, Untamed
i search for the meaning of something i know i don't have the strength of accepting
Umbrellas and citizenhood: Hong Kong “Umbrellas Movement” and BLack Lives Matter movement in Seattle.
In 2014, Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators demanded the right for the territory to pick its leaders. Hong Kong, which had been a part of the former British Empire until 1977, had some independence from China. This has been called “one country, two systems.” When China government decided to limit pre-approved candidates in elections, the protest started and demanded the right to fully free leadership elections. Police officers used tear gas and batons against pro-democracy demonstrators.
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― Eli Of Kittim, author of The Little Book of Revelation : The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
still trying to find my place in this world...
but when do i know i have reached it?
An ice cream cone, a good read, a text from a loved one. May all the tiny things always bring you much joy.
I love this concept of life and how you are everyone and that religion has a meaning but at the same time it doesn't as well. To explain in depth about all of my reasons why i like this would take me forever and many pages or perhaps none at all...Much food for thought.
It's not wrong to not need to be "saved" or "chosen" by a god.
You don't need a god to follow good morals.
And you don't need a god in order to live a good life.
Humans evolved to thrive when they have good connections with:
1.) Themselves (i.e., they come to know and understand and accept themselves as human beings);
2.) Their Environment (i.e., they spend time in, and, if they so choose, nurture and do a bit of tending in the natural landscape that they call home); and,
3.) Their Community (i.e., maintain authentic, mutually-consensual, and close ties to family, friends, and/or other members of their community: building and becoming part of the interconnected support networks that help their communities to function and thrive).
We have sentience apart from these foundational human wants and needs; so we get to choose to pursue skills, crafts, fields of knowledge; and personal or communal goals that appeal to us and that make us happy...but aside from choosing that purpose voluntarily for ourselves, what is wrong with just living a good life and loving and caring for and helping the people and the lands around you in whatever little ways you like?
Why is that not enough?
Does everyone really have to have an overblown 'Chosen One' complex in order to be worth anything?
Because all those little ways of being can add up to something immensely beautiful and satisfying... provided, of course, that the current systems in which we live aren't actively preventing, undoing, and sabotaging our connections to them.
Geezzz
I had a dream about being friends with two brothers, and one of them suddenly went to a school's bathroom and I knew he was about to do something dangerous but his brother grabbed my arm and led me to the same bathroom but there was this hall in there and he tried to fuck me, like he was trying to undress me but I didn't let him and then I went to see his brother to stop him from doing this dangerous thing and I didn't find him in the bathroom so I started searching the building and the group of people started looking for him, we were climbing some fences, and I think they thought they found him but I went looking inside, and it looked like a greek temple with moving statues of gods, and there was a vase with water with rose petals and I washed my hands there and the goddess spoke to me and suddenly I was somewhere else and I was a cat and I was walking, then running through a shopping mall, and then appeared in the village and I think I was still looking for the brother, I came on a property because it was "calling" me and I met a house cat and we were talking and I wanted to leave so I turned into a human and opened the gate and left but the house cat followed me so I grabbed its collar and put it again on the property and I again turned into a cat and the house cat jumped on the fence and said that the next time we meet he will do the same thing I did to him, that I will suffer
I don't know what that means, I kinda wanna know what was the deal with brothers
Can someone explain?
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey P. Newton
"'Why did you do all this for me?' Wilbur asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' "You have been my friend, replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die... By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.
Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.'"
~From Charlotte's Web by Elwyn Brooks, "E.B." White
(from "a candlelight") there's a candlelight in my heart that always precariously flickers with their own eyes with their own blue lines it's a meaningless world for truth say their own eyes, say their own blue lines, but my candlelight would never flicker like this ravingly if they're right
it’s so beautiful. i love keeping all the little notes from the people i no longer know, i will never let go of the notebooks where i wrote about people, still love the bracelets from my 5th grade ex-best friend, i would never let go of any of the little objects i’ve ever loved, im a shrine of everyone i’ve ever loved & i collect remnants of them like diamonds. people, places, things - i hoard.
it's amazing how ordinary objects can become so significant to only the owner
I just finished this! It represents something but I bet you can't guess what
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
The Dalai Lama (via lazyyogi)
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