That’s perhaps the only reason I’m taking drawing classes. I want to train myself to notice the smallest details and be able to draw whatever I find beautiful!!
i’m obsessed with this hospital in barcelona because whoever built it understood that beauty is a form of medicine that can uplift the human spirit and support healing
You should never regret being vulnerable & opening your heart to someone, even if not reciprocated. Doesn't matter what they think, doesn't matter if you're judged. You never know if such an example & posture, when set, might heal something in someone moving forward
Simultaneously, this approach is really hard to achieve without being anchored in God's love (almost impossible), as He himself is the best example of such disposition
The worst thing you can do in a relationship is ask the person you love to pay for their sins against you. To "prove" their love. To "win back your trust." We are all broken, and ugly, and stupid, and if we were required to pay for all of our crimes against one another, we would be in eternal debt. Either you can forgive them, or you don't. But never make it a debt that requires them to be subservient to you. You think you might win something in having that sense of power, but you don't. Every day that you don't just love them with the full expression of your devotion, feeling the freedom that comes with total submersion into your pact to each other, you lose and you lose and you lose.
as a woman one of your biggest purposes is to teach your body how to relax in copious amounts. sleep, nap, take the longest baths with lotuses and myrrh, waste time, spend hours listening to music or watching the stars, or both. massage every muscle until it’s melted like butter, slowly, and serenely. teach your body that it’s enough to just exist, in the mellowness of your essence, drinking it in, bathing in it, revelling in it. give yourself unhurried time to spend with the amber sun, eating mangoes, being fully present with the juicy, honeyed, golden flesh. read long thick books with no intention of learning, just for the intricate, vivid details described. drink it all in, the fairytales, the romances, the exact shades of the sky. this is not laziness, because even when we rest, we’re still being rushed by a million things on our mind, the ancestral, programmed guilt disturbing us every second, trying to lure us away from the vibration of paradise, the vibration of the garden of eden. teach your body how to resist this, to unlearn the implanted guilt, to unclench every muscle, every cell, and to rebel with even more wasted time, even more rest, even more frivolous luxury, until rest feels like a lush meadow where time isn’t real, instead of something that eats away at you every time you try to have a moment to your angelic, divine self.
in my personal experiences, results follow intentions.
write to yourself. write to express yourself so creatively and deeply. write to put out true value.
whenever i write something and i feel that little spark and whir inside of me, it almost always becomes a banger without me having to put obsessive effort into it
When you truly love a man, the only thing you can see is him. The intensity you feel toward him becomes almost uncontainable. All you want to do is admire, observe and absorb him.
Even the smallest glimpse of him becomes enough. His flaws, the way he looks, eats, sleeps, walks, talks, breathes, exists, everything about him begins to feel unbearably attractive. He becomes the constant thought living in the back of your mind and the silent reference point through which everything else is measured.
No matter how many years pass, or what circumstances life places between you, your admiration for him does not diminish. It deepens, and becomes devotional. When you truly love a man, your heart keeps returning to him.
whimsical people are whimsical because they’re hopeful. they’re always looking out for ways to romanticize life. even if you aren’t consciously spiritual, this is a highly spiritual trait, to have fun, to play with life and to invite joy by constantly noticing magic everywhere
the best beauty tip is to make your inner conversations softer and sweeter. our cells listen to everything we think and absorb their specific vibrations. so, become devoted to creating inner harmony. only think beautiful, uplifting, and loving thoughts, and watch how you glow
It’s actually easy to stand out in the top 1% if you:
-Have sexual discipline
-See the glass half full
-Can have deep conversations
-Have emotional awareness (can read the room)
-Don’t need anyone’s validation but God’s
-Don’t seek attn
-Dress well & appropriately
-Take care of your body & health
-Invest your time & energy intentionally
-Don’t need people to fill any voids
-Are solution-oriented
-Are organized in every area of your life
-Let God into every aspect of your life
Having a fiction book on the go and reading it throughout the day as you slip in and out of your world is a hugely underrated practice. Does something to the psyche that I cannot quite explain, but days spent doing this are the best of days.
This is partly why I believe healthy people don’t really like being around unhealthy people, but unhealthy people realllllyyyy wanna be around healthy ones
The healthy people are naturally calming and settling to other people’s nervous systems while unhealthy people are the opposite. They will unsettle and disturb. They will unconsciously try to take from you. I don’t think that’s a bad thing, sometimes I like being unsettled and disturbed, but most of the time I don’t
A person has to be incredibly boundaried to be around unhealthy people without being affected by them. If u try to get involved w unhealthy people before ur ready you’ll get eaten alive. They won’t “intend” to do it but they will do it. It’s self-protective to be discerning
My favourite line from the movie Interstellar is, "A machine doesn't improvise well, because you can't program a fear of death." The reason why humans can innovate and push boundaries is that we know that our time is finite. Our greatest source of inspiration is the hope that maybe someday, we can create something that can cheat death.
We try to create art that lives in people's memories, medicine that extends life, and technology that transcends the body. We're even trying to find a home on another planet in case we live so long that we outlive Earth.
At the heart of almost every major human innovation is the desire to outlast ourselves. This is why I don't subscribe to the idea that we need to live longer, or forever. The knowing that death will someday arrive at our doorstep is what drives us as human beings to create something that will transcend time.
There's an irony in it. Our sickness is also our cure. It gets me thinking that maybe death isn't a flaw. Maybe it's a gift.
Overthinking isn’t bad in itself.
In fact, I think anyone who has ever built something, solved problems in their business/ personal life, or tried to figure their way through uncertainty would relate to this.
Sometimes thinking deeply and over and over again until you find the solution is exactly what helps you get out of the situation you’re stuck in.
Overthinking only gets unhealthy when we overthink the problems we think we can solve, but in reality they’re either outside of our control or simply out of our control for the time being.
Because if a problem can actually be solved through deeper thought, reflection, strategy, or awareness, then thinking more about it isn’t necessarily unhealthy.
Overthinking is a defense mechanism.
Our mind loves to keep circling around a situation because it’s trying to protect and prepare us, or find certainty before we take any action.
But once we genuinely find a solution, we usually stop overthinking the same thing because the mind naturally shifts toward action mode.
So maybe the real question is how we think deeply about the problems that are actually in our control without falling into destructive loops.
And I think that starts with being deeply aware of what we constantly think about, what’s actually in our control, and what’s not.
And maybe going one step further by giving our minds better questions to think about the problems that we truly care about.
Our mind loves solving problems.
Overthinking is just a defensive way of doing so.
“I don’t have time to read.”
• Average Screentime = 2.5h/day
• Average Book = 7h to read
• That’s 2 books a week
Read 104 books a year > Scroll TikTok
This is probably a "loss" that everyone goes through as they grow up. Especially as life becomes harder and harder, all you want to do is return to childhood. You miss the lack of responsibility, the constant play, and being taken care of instead of having to do the caring.
But the reality is you can't go backwards. Life only moves in one direction. Sometimes that makes adults bitter. I commonly meet people who don't want to exist under the weight of what it means to grow up. They don't want to suffer, to commit, to be responsible for something other than the self.
That's where "become childlike again" becomes important. You don't have to become cold and cynical. You can cultivate and retain the sense of wonder and whimsy you had when you were young, only now you have the power to put into the world through what you build and give to others.
Adulthood is where wonder finally gains agency.