'Dream River Guide' 𓅪 ahad @wiresandtrees
Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there,” or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn’t make it any less insane. If you have to, you can move fast, work fast, or even run, without projecting yourself into the future and without resisting the present. As you move, work, run — do it totally. Enjoy the flow of energy, the high energy of that moment. Now you are no longer stressed, no longer splitting yourself in two. Just moving, running, working — and enjoying it. Or you can drop the whole thing and sit on a park bench. But when you do, watch your mind. It may say: “You should be working. You are wasting time.” Observe the mind. Smile at it.
Eckhart Tolle
“It’s important that you keep your feelings and your self worth in different places because when feelings get hurt it shouldn’t change how you view yourself.”
— kushandwizdom
La delgada línea entre no decir nada para evitar el conflicto y vivir en conflicto sin decir nada.
— Seguen
Source: somos-deseos
Take Control of your Mind and Get Ahead in Life
If you want to make the most of the life you have then pay attention to the following suggestions:
1. Don’t pay too much attention to the way you feel. Feelings change throughout the day and they are unreliable. Don’t let them rule your life, or interfere with your goals.
2. Decide not to worry as it tends to make things worse. If you focus on your worries it will drain your energy – and often what we’re dreading doesn’t happen anyway.
3. Cut the internal commentary. Stop saying to yourself that things are going to fall apart, or your efforts won’t succeed, or that you won’t be popular. Keep trying to move forwards, and to make the most of life.
4. Stop being self-critical. You need to be your own cheerleader and your biggest fan in life. Note progress, perseverance, attitude and inner strength.
5. Stop feeling guilty. Feeling guilty changes nothing. You are going to make mistakes. Accept you aren’t perfect - then get up and try again.
6. Stop worrying about what others think of you. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what they think. Choose your own goals for your life – you’re not accountable to them.
7. Don’t worry about set backs or changes to your plans. Plans always need adjusting and things always go awry. That doesn’t mean “it’s over” or you’ll never reach your goals. Expect to make some changes – just remain adaptable.
Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? ~ Jimi Hendrix
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality.
Eckhart Tolle
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.
Anne Lamott
The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the less you need to manufacture the world around you for comfort.
Cory Muscara
Never beg anyone for anything, not time, not attention, not love – nothing. If it's always one-sided and it doesn't flow that's your sign to let it go.
I went to see my doctor today and the first thing she said to me was “you know you have a mullet, right?”... I do but thank you for the swift diagnosis
Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
