#ali

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #psychology #spirituality #life

Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well. ↗

— Megan Wilson

#reality-of-life #life

When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #life #sky #space #star

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others". ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabriol

#life

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#health #repression #sex #sexuality #suppression

Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#god #love #spirituality #life

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry ↗

— Lalita Tademy

#hardness #heavy #lalita-tademy #life #load

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway. ↗

— Albert Camus

#heartbreak #life #love #relationships #sadness

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure. ↗

— Mark Scandrette

#spirituality #life

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#krishna #life #palace-of-illusions #panchaali #seriousness