black cats are wonderful because you can stare into the void and not only does the void stare back, sometimes it trots up to you happily and begs for pats
An Arabic proverb says; “Keep your house clean like you're expecting guests.Keep your heart clean like you're expecting death.” This hits deep, a reminder we often forget.
this quote from Carl Jung hits so hard.
"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live."
high-iq minds share one trait: intellectual promiscuity.
they flirt with ideas. they date concepts. they never marry one.
they can read marx and nietzsche in the same afternoon,
quote the quran and quantum physics in the same breath,
build a circuit board while questioning metaphysics.
true intelligence isn’t loyal. it betrays beliefs the second better evidence appears.
it doesn’t believe in ideas; it plays with them.
tests them. breaks them. recombines them.
low-iq minds aren’t dumb; they’re just addicted to certainty.
they need a single framework to feel safe.
one ideology to belong to.
but the agile mind?
it loves ideas without needing to own them.
it studies everything.
it belongs nowhere; yet understands everything.
There is a WOMAN out there right now with no boyfriend, no side men, no situationship, no sneaky links, just by herself building the life she wants. Wherever you are, sis, you are going to win.
She kisses in a way that makes me think, in the middle of kissing her, that if I hadn’t done this, I’d walk around for the rest of my life with some kind of regret whose origins I could never entirely place.
Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object
“The lust for sex, gluttonous eating, and other frivolities advanced in no small way; men acted as women, and women uncovered their modesty; they combed land and sea to find culinary delicacies; they slept before their bodies needed sleep; they waited for neither hunger nor thirst, nor cold or exhaustion, but preempted all these things by their soft-living. These vices incited the youth to wrongdoing once their family resources had run out. A mind imbued with evil habits is not easily kept free from wantonness; and ever more immoderately, their minds had surrendered themselves to all varieties of material gain and profligacy.”
-Sallust