Real love is not ownership, real love is not control, real love is not possession. Real love is allowing another person the freedom to be who they are. Do not make your happiness dependent on others - this is called fear.
#love#fear#relationship
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." -- Taoist Teaching
"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao". The opening line of the Tao Te Ching - ultimate reality, truth, or the "Way" (Tao) cannot be fully captured, defined, or expressed through language or intellectual concepts. Language can become a container that inhibits truth.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die. It is an attack upon yourself. Free yourself from suffering.
#Buddhism#selflove
Couples choose eachother with an unerring instinct for finding the very person who exactly matches their own level of unconscious anxieties, mirrors their own disfuncunctions, and who will trigger for them all of their unresolved emotional pain.
- Dr Gabor Maté
#SelfCare
In the Lakota tradition, "bullets in the front, arrows in the back." True leaders will always face opposition from enemies and betrayal from supposed allies.
- Chase Iron Eyes
#quotesoftheday#Leadership
Fall in love with your life. Wake up early, buy your favorite coffee, go for walks, eat good food, wear what makes you feel confident, and listen to your favorite music. Purposefully create these small moments that make you fall in love with your life." ~Unknown
"The greatest gift you can give yourself is permission to be yourself. Your purpose is not something to be found; it is something to be remembered."
- Human Design: Ra Uru Hu
You are your attitude. Your thoughts, feelings and environment impact your DNA at an electromagnetic quantum level, constantly altering your worldview. This is epigenetics - a holistic observable example of this is the placebo effect.
#HolisticHealth#science#HealthyHabits
10% of people online generate 90% of the content. The algorithm rewards outrage more than any other single emotion. That means that the most extreme 5% on either side of the spectrum are dictating “The Conversation” for all of us.
#conflict#politics#war#socialmedia#TikTok
#Psychedelics, #transcendence, #love, and the #spiritual path -
These compounds change everything (when bringing us up from an Awe deficit to baseline).
These compounds change nothing (when going from baseline to excess.)
#psychedelics
Bruce Lee famously said “I don’t fear the man who has practiced 1,000 kicks one time. I fear the man who has practiced one kick a 1,000 times.”
“Do not trust the man who has taken 20 trips this year. Trust the man who has taken one trip every year, for 20 years”