self-discovery
finding yourself, self-knowledge
Supritha S and
self-discovery
Don’t forget this: Nothing is truly ever ordinary. I’m telling you, Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
The summary of all self-help is to focus on the long-term in everything you do!
thoughts and ways were never anything like mine? But each year I know love and belonging—a love that doesn’t require sacrifice at the altar of acceptance—I become more of who I already am. I am liberated into what Merton calls my “true self.” I believe this is my deepest calling.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
For this reason, the process of knowing the self should be relentless. It will always be worth asking what is really true of us, for each day we live, we do so with deeper longings for acceptance, and the risk of alienation can cause us to dissociate from the truth of ourselves.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Shifting from viewing growth as a movement from wrong to right to something expansive makes making progress sustainable, easier, faster and much more fulfilling.
instagram.comdon’t necessarily agree / like the note on ‘faster’ in the caption, otherwise yeah sweet -lfg.
Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.
Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity
Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.
Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion.
Keep showing up.