Self-actualization - Tumblr Posts
It's so odd. I'm looking at the unlovable tag and reblogging posts, but I feel entirely numb. I used to cry or feel sad over being undeniably unlovable and unlikable by most, but now... I guess that part of me just died. I just accepted this as a fact of life.
I suppose either I'm healing or I'm dying. I don't know if there's anything in between and, frankly, I'm somewhat wary of finding out what it could be.
Saying "Or what?" to a motherfucker.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
—C.G. Jung
Some books for self improvement/wisdom/helpful information:
-The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
-Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday
-Courage is calling by Ryan Holiday
-The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
-The Lost Teachings of Atlantis By Jon Peniel
-A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
-The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The best is yet to come
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
—Rumi
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” —Alan Watts
“We must act in a selfless spirit, Krishna says, without ego-involvement and without getting entangled in whether things work out the way we want; only then will we not fall into the terrible net of karma. We cannot hope to escape karma by refraining from our duties: even to survive in the world, we must act.”
—Bhagavad Gita
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz:
"Be impeccable with your word",
"Do not take anything personally",
"Do not make assumptions",
and "Always do your best".
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
—Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
—Rumi
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
—Marcus Aurelius
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
—Seneca
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
—Aristotle
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
—Spinoza
“The lamp of wisdom shines brightest when lit by the flame of self-awareness.”
—Musonius Rufus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
—Epictetus
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
—Zeno