I’m done letting spiritually ugly people taint my ability to move in this world with the correct heart posture. I will not be taking on the guilt and pressure that belongs to them.
unlearn shame. all forms of shame: unemployment, illness, vulnerability, longing, desire, errors, failures. you do not need to feel ashamed of what you are experiencing or living. freedom and shame cannot coexist.
Since I became a Christian when I was 9 after witnessing very specific prayers being answered I began to have an extremely intimate, inner dialogue-based relationship with God wherein I discussed everything about my life with him, and it wasn’t until the last year or two (my 30s) I realized that most Christians I encounter aren’t doing this much, maybe not at all
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
The women who possess this particular faculty of seeing a man's unfinished architecture before he's even laid the foundation have almost universally been through something that stripped them down to their own studs first. you cannot develop that kind of vision without having been demolished and rebuilt at least once because that is what they are recognizing in you, their own process mirrored back in another body
Instead of being shocked by your own darkness. Envy, lust, pride, fear, resentment, vanity. You study it. Come to a mutual agreement. Internalise it. Utilise it to fuel your ambitions in a productive way. This is shadow integration.
Clearest sign that someone is undergoing the process that leads to psychological maturity is that they become more confrontational with those closest to them and less confrontational with strangers.
AND SO ACTUALLY THE REASON I’M SINGLE IS BECAUSE I HAVE PRAYED FOR A TRUE LOVE AND NOBODY IS MAKING THE CUT YET. I’M PROTECTED FROM MEDIOCRITY. THAT’S THE ONLY REASON. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU.
If you have faith like a mustard seed. Jesus did not say big faith, he said stupidly small faith, embarrassingly small faith. and the mountain moves, because God is not impressed by your size. he is impressed that you still asked at all, after everything