just be your self & do your own thing
discover & express your unique self
forge your own path
make your own rules
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just be your self & do your own thing
>Just do your thing, cruise in your lane, thrive, be happy, find vitality in your life. By all means, check off the boxes that you think make you a more appealing person to be around. But after that, all you can do is let it rip and see what happens
yatharth in LAx.com"just do your thing" is a non-self-consciousness-inducing way to express the wisdom that "just be yourself" tries and fails at, and the reason is obvious if you look at the words.
Malcolm Ocean is working 100× softerx.comturns out if you let yourself want what you want*, everything is amazing
(* instead of supposed-tos, shoulds, “if I were a good person, I’d…”s, rules, everybody else’s opinion, what’s ‘sane’, what’s ‘reasonable’, what you have worked out intellectually, etc.)
ɐʇǝɯ-Luliex.comI don’t know how many hundreds of ways there are to say this — I guess as many as it takes until it lands: looking for answers outside of yourself is useless if they don’t lead you to the answers inside you.
Trying to follow someone else’s answers can be dangerous, in about the same way eating wood shavings is dangerous: you’ll feel full while you w... See more
Trying to follow someone else’s answers can be dangerous, in about the same way eating wood shavings is dangerous: you’ll feel full while you w... See more
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
Kierkegaard: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
Rumi (Coleman Barks): “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
We need to know ourselves more fully because the resulting awareness helps to make sense of why the gap between the way we are living and the world we would like to create endures.