U ARE ALLOWED TO BE MESSY . PERFECTION IS NOT REAL . TO LIVE MAXIMALLY U MUST CREATE FISSURES IN YOUR LIFE : RISK, VULNERABILITY, EXCHANGE . CELEBRATE ASYMMETRY , CELEBRATE YOUR STUPID BRAIN , CELEBRATE INTIMACY

wreck something that’s full of certainty to know that uncertainty is not a strange, unfamiliar feeling, but a device you may fashion like a drip, loosening your throat to the irritable, unearthly process of saying goodbye to choice

GET UR FLU AND COVID SHOTS THIS SEASON . PROTECT YOURSELF AND HUMANITY

Moms who work in grocery stores want all the love they give.

words of wisdom, aphorisms, choices on how to live …

you live this way because you choose to

闷骚 (mèn sāo) adjective used as noun - mandarin someone who is reserved on the outside, extremely passionate on the inside

U mean more to everyone u know, more than u can ever know

does THE INTERNET count as a CITIZEN of THE WORLD ?

“You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.”

“The eye and the ‘I’, same sound and probably same thing. That’s why, in a single room there are many exits for the soul. We move in order to stop the thinking, let something else take over. In moving there’s rest.” —Etel Adnan

i love the term “self-evident” so much. some truths you can’t look away from, even if you try. like the reality of the thing both precedes and shapes its existence.

we get what we desire because we create space for it, not because it is supposed to happen.

man

Go birds

“Can human nature not survive / Without a listener?” —Emily Dickinson