I'll break some patterns with this post, but...
Things that are not immature (contrary to what many claim):
- feeling negative emotions,
- being honest about what you think,
- skipping the greeting and getting straight to the topic,
- crying,
- standing in the rain without an umbrella,
- having fun,
- laughing,
- playing games for children,
- watching cartoons,
- making BIG cute eyes,
- showing your tongue,
- dancing and singing in public places,
- jumping,
- walking barefoot on dirt,
- hugging in public places,
- kissing your pets,
- creating funny nicknames.
Things that can be a sign of mental immaturity or childhood trauma (contrary to what many claim):
- pretending you feel differently than you really do,
- telling people only what they want to hear,
- suppressing your negative emotions and expressing only positive emotions,
- always wanting to be seen as well-behaved,
- silent treatment,
- keeping a serious expression all the time,
- demanding to be called by a specific title or only your full name,
- speaking only in a diplomatic tone.
Yes, that's it. Now you can argue. 😂🤍
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa
God, the only One who loves. His love knows no change and is ever ready to take us in. How long would any of you bear with me if I injured you? He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God #SwamiVivekananda
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall, while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish, and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
Lao Tzu
You’ve been conditioned to believe you’re not worth it.
You don’t ask for favors.
You don’t bother anyone.
You never want to impose.
But receiving is one of the most important things you can do when you love yourself.
You’re so used to giving and giving.
Of course, seeing others happy made you happy,
but when were you ever truly happy for yourself?
Did anyone even notice?
They were so wrapped up in themselves,
they never stopped to ask if you were okay.
And you were too selfless to admit you weren’t in the first place.
But you know, and they know,
that if they were only pretending to be happy,
you would have noticed.
That’s how deeply you care.
That’s how attuned you are.
No one is asking you to change your golden heart.
You couldn’t, even if you wanted to.
Just be happy for yourself.
Take care of you.
After all, the universe reflects back
how you treat yourself.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
when he says “ily” but Dostoevsky said “i do not ask for your love in return. to love you is enough. to have known you, to have felt alive in your presence, that is my greatest joy and will carry it with me always”