(1) the Strangeness of Being Strange - The Small Bow
We get older, we find life is riven with weirdness. We should be weird too.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in, and belonging to, yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require that you change who you are. It requires that you be who you are.
Maria Popova • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
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