We are still enslaved to the things we are taught are ultimate “goods.” We justify our faith in the system by flawed and influenced logic. We continue to believe that something external can change our internal ability to be aware, to appreciate, to live, to feel.
“Living simply makes loving simple.”
I realized I was never really upset about how my body looked as much as I was upset that I felt I couldn’t control what I did to it (and what it ended up looking like because of that lack of control.)
Nice girl guilt: the overwhelming need to make other people happy at any and every expense. The feeling society has instilled in you when you have disappointed someone in some way – even just in your own mind.
I learned how to have the courage to tell my story, the kindness not to tell others’ and the objectivity to know the difference.
When we are the ones who make them, we are the ones who can overcome them.
A body is responsible for the most amazing part of anything – physically finding or creating. Once we have something, we don’t want it anymore. What we really want is to make and fight and become.
An exhaustive list of (productive) things to think about other than the issue at hand.
Notice how we only feel we are doing “something” when that “something” can be externally measured… by other people?
Children’s meditations, lucid writing, binaural beats, walking meditations.