I will never stop shouting this from the rooftops: the most underrated skill you’ll ever develop is the ability to genuinely enjoy your own life. Not someday, when you’ve healed enough, earned enough, or finally figured everything out. NOW. Because your life isn’t waiting for you somewhere in the future—it’s being built in the way you experience this ordinary Sunday, this cup of coffee, this conversation, this sunset, this breath.
I don’t go by societies standards. I do what works for me and sometimes that’s the total opposite of what’s “accepted” lucky enough for me idgaf about what’s accepted and not. 🤷🏽♀️ and my life is very peaceful this way
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5. Every "I cannot focus" moment is really "I cannot fake it."
You cannot move creativity in a direction your body does not believe in.
Your system recognises inauthenticity and shuts down.
That is why you freeze. That is why you scroll. The story simply was not true enough.
I think about this tweet all the time. I think it’s such a healthy, gentle, beautiful attitude towards love and loss. Never be ungrateful for love, never let bitterness poison your days or your nights
Honestly, I feel sorry for you if you've never been betrayed by someone you love in such a way that makes you question the integrity of your entire relationship. Because until that happens, you'll think that faith and trust are maintained by always doing the right thing. No. Faith is supposed to persist despite people often being horrible and stupid and lazy and ugly. That's what faith is. If you were to examine yourself truly, you would see how many times, big or small, you have let other people down, and yet still loved them anyway and wanted to become better. So it is with people who hurt you. Faith in love persists even when people are doing bad things to each other.
If you love someone long enough you will probably betray them. And they will betray you. Over and over again. But you would be surprised how easy it is to let these betrayals go, if you are both committed on a path toward becoming more loving toward each other.
I think people in the modern world are not capable of this type of self-reflection because they run and hide from the thing that requires it the most: relationships. You rarely improve for your own sake, you improve because who you are gets in the way of the shared happiness and peace between you and a loved one. And only once you love someone else more than you love your ego can you do the hard work of digging into your own mind, analyzing the dark things, and truly facing them.
@cxgonzalez Similar but different: intellectualizers can sometimes lose their sense of lightness, humor, joy, silliness - after spending time nourishing my thinky side I think I'm getting a bit tired of it all. Sometimes you really just need to make dumb jokes, get drunk, and fuck around.
If we want to receive any money, we have to be willing to receive all money. And to receive money, we have to be willing to receive people, because money always comes to us via people. Blocking any part blocks the whole. So it's about being willing to receive it all. We must be willing to receive all of our own frequencies, because everything is our own Greater Being.
I agree up to the hypothesis part.
Wonder generates hypotheses. Evidence decides which ones survive.
The problem is that a lot of people skip the second step. They fall in love with the hypothesis and start defending it instead of trying to kill it.
Imagination is where ideas begin.
Reality is where they earn the right to stay.
the truth is that when some people know about your unpalatable experiences, they begin to act like they’re doing you a favor by being in your life or doing the bare minimum for you. folks don’t even realize that they do this subconsciously.
late to this, but it's still worth going into!
integrating your primal goddess starts in embodying your sexuality because it's the place women have been most thoroughly colonized by the male gaze. we are taught to experience pleasure through how a partner is receiving it, through how well we can perform and entice, instead of experiencing it from inside our own nervous systems, and that is what disconnects us from our primal nature.
it starts there because that is the site of our deepest domestication, the one that lives in the female collective conscious, which is pervasive and identity-shattering. most girls are not even given the opportunity to build an identity before their concepts of sexuality and pleasure are completely hijacked by the notion of performance and comparison.
when you learn to stay present in your body and let pleasure be something you rightfully receive rather than something you offer as a bid for connection, you begin to transform. it takes work to get there but i genuinely think women should only be having sex from a primal place, because a woman who has reclaimed her instinctual nature cannot separate the erotic from the rest of her wildness. the same force that moves through her in creation, in destruction, in desire, is the force that moves through her in pleasure.
to be primal is to be unapologetic about your hunger not just for pleasure but for space, for power, for beauty, for food, for solitude, for knowledge, for all that life has to offer. it’s acting from an inner authority that can only be achieved by trusting your intuition and knowing you are deserving of taking up space, of taking up pleasure. saying what's actually true in your body, honoring it in every capacity.
do you eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, push only when you have the strength? or do you override your body's signals constantly? big cats sleep 18 hours a day because the hunt requires total expenditure. they move in their own rhythms and nobody else's, and a feral woman does too.
the truth is, language can describe this state but you cannot think your way into it. this part of you predates your conditioning, your socialization, your trauma responses, your performance of acceptable femininity. she is already fully built inside of you, waiting to be discovered by awakening the sensual, pleasure-receiving feminine, but also by letting rage be part of the body. by floating into attack, exhausting yourself in movement as a response, reveling in the thrill of success. full integration is the languor and the slash. the pleasure and the fury. the purring cat and the hunter cat.
your prayers are being answered in the form of the thing being removed, the door closing, the plan falling through but you’re so busy grieving the thing that wasn’t for you that you missed the redirect the universe is not punishing you it has better taste than you right now and it’s protecting the vision
you will be burdened by others, this is the way relationships and reciprocity works. you will feel uncomfortable at times, this is normal and you should be willing to give grace. you will feel guilty, and that’s ok, work on slow changes.
MARGUERITE PORETE - THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS
In 1310, French Beguine mystic Marguerite Porete was burned at the stake in Paris for refusing to recant her book The Mirror of Simple Souls (written c. 1296). The work is one of the most radical texts in Western Christian mysticism.
Key Facts
• Who she was: A lay religious woman (Beguine) from the Hainaut region who lived independently, wrote, and preached without formal monastic vows. Little else is known about her life.
• The Book: Written in Old French as a dialogue between Love, the Soul, Reason, and other allegorical figures. It describes the soul’s journey through seven stages of spiritual “annihilation,” culminating in complete union with God. The perfected (“simple” or “annihilated”) soul becomes so emptied of ego and self-will that it no longer needs the Church, sacraments, or virtues — it acts purely as a transparent mirror of divine love.
• Why it was heretical: Church authorities saw it as promoting antinomianism (the idea that the enlightened soul is above moral and ecclesiastical laws) and linked it to the Free Spirit movement. Copies were burned as early as 1306, but Porete continued circulating the text.
• Execution: After a trial in Paris, she was condemned as a relapsed heretic on June 1, 1310, and executed by burning in Place de Grève. Witnesses noted her calm and pious demeanor.
Legacy
The book survived anonymously in translations for centuries and was only firmly attributed to Porete in 1946. Today it is recognized as a profound medieval mystical masterpiece, valued for its bold exploration of divine love, self-surrender, and direct union with God. It remains influential in studies of Christian mysticism, women’s writing, and Western esotericism.
The recent interest highlights how Porete’s ideas still resonate as strikingly modern and radical.
I do believe yin — actual feminine energy — has been suppressed in society and in religious institutions for a reason. Because true femininity is receptive, not obedient and submissive. Receptive to direct knowledge, to the divine itself. That kind of receptivity decentralizes authority, especially in religious institutions.