Silence is about 500 times as perplexing as speech.
Silence is about 500 times as perplexing as speech.
Show me something real, and I’ll believe that it can be.
Second only to ecumenical truth or mercy, the mystery of who you are is the greatest thing you can share with others.
I’m not saying to take everything so seriously that you never take risks, but you should recognize the heart for the gift that it is. Or why else do you have one—to feel, but deny, or to want, but compromise?
Help me not to… even if I fail or am rejected many times.
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
- Japanese Proverb
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This is SO true, and I suffer more from the first so often. I don’t take action because I’m too afraid of rejection or failure. But it’s very dissatisfying to only dream without pursuing dreams on any real level, and it’s not very gracious towards myself either. So lately, I’m trying to change this.
If you suffer from one or the other, let’s try and change together, and change starts by vocalizing concerns and/or fears with mature people who love you and then walking towards set goals.
Let’s go. Because life here is too short not to live deliberately. *Or to truly live and love at all.
There is pretty much no desire or creative ambition that is meant to be borne alone. The things that matter most to us are the ones that are most important to share.
Doing so helps create and sustain life; whereas, the opposite notion of bottling, hoarding, or hiding what matters to us will gradually demolish life and meaning altogether.
No matter what your religion or non-religion, “It is not good for a human to be alone” is a supreme truth.
It is quite certain that we will not find paradise upon the earth. What is less certain is whether we’ll make good friends and homes for each other while we still can.
Breath is a gift. Friends are a blessing. Love and trust are (and must be held as) sacred.
And all our ideas of perfection here are lies.
If you cannot say “no” to anything, how can any “yes” you say be trusted? Your decision making process is compromised and unclear.
Vice’ versa, if you cannot say “yes” to anything, you’re probably saying “no” for unhealthy reasons as well.
And I’d guess that fear has a great deal to do with both scenarios. Ask yourself this to prove or disprove my thought—when you struggle to say “yes” or “no” without feeling torn, what is causing you to feel torn?
*Things I think about as they pertain to myself and my friends.
A turn signal in traffic is a lot like communication in a relationship—stop using them, and you’re going to cause a lot of confusion, frustration, and maybe even death to someone else.
Without dreaming and actively pursuing our dreams—those things which we value most, our hearts die, and our souls fall into steep, dark holes.
Don’t stop now.
Give yourself the chance (and/or the change) that you’d hope to give someone else.
It’s never too late for love to find you or what you do.
Success in life seems to be dependent on truth and energy transfers—or maybe they’re even the same thing somehow, I’d suggest.
Make sure you are charged. *And keep staying charged.
You were born to perform at being yourself.
Charge.
I may be a tortured soul, but I’d rather be tortured than not know. #whatmatters
We’re more than DNA and other peoples’ choices and/or issues.
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Today, you have the power to choose.
Crank up your positive jams.
And kick lies in the ass.
*Or at least, give yourself a chance at a little self acceptance. Things are not your fault. If you’re honest with yourself, despite your mistakes and shortcomings, you’ll know this.
We deserve better than the crap that’s happened. Pursue something good for yourself today. Do something you love. Think of things that make you come alive, and MAKE SPACE to concentrate on them.
Don’t allow yourself to be a pushover. YOU MATTER TOO.
You can’t love someone else unless you know what being loved feels like. Sometimes—and maybe today for you, this means you have to give yourself a little love—a little space to know yourself and choose something for yourself. It’s ok.
Don’t live like a guilty person. You’ve made mistakes, but you’re a lot more than just bad.
Think well of yourself. Let the truth in the good thoughts of others—maybe even God, of you can find that faith—fuel you to gracious acceptance and pride within who you are.
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Don’t let yourself regret your own existence.
Lies are the enemy.
We are the resistance.
If this is what life as a guy is, I’d hate to see the life as a girl video. Because everyone knows that our world isn’t sexist and women are in no shape or form abused or unappreciated.
Yet still, I can understand this movie maker’s pain.
Oh love and trust… maybe I still don’t know you.
When you’re always trying to please everyone else at the expense of feeling miserable or alone, you are not being honest about who and where you are—let alone what you need. No matter what the well-intended reason is to hide or be complacent, no one can know you (not even yourself) if you keep denying the truth of who you are.
Honesty is a bold thing. It requires the risk for disagreement and, sometimes, even loss if others are so unreasonable or incapable to understand. But do not spend your life too afraid to be honest.
The truth and value of your life is not worth wasting for anyone’s appeasement.
You are here to be—TO LIVE!!!—far more than an apology.
