Don’t hide your hurt, beautiful soul.

Don’t hide your hurt, beautiful soul. Grab a hold of it. Run it through the purifying flame of your heart and mold it into something beautiful. Allow the depths of your pain to expand the breadth of your compassion. Gather up your stumbling stones and build a bridge for someone else. Remember what it’s like to be lost in darkness so you can be someone else’s much needed light. Don’t deny your pain or bury it away. Let it rise to the surface. And then transform it into something that makes it worthwhile.

She knew this transition was not about becoming

She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she had always been.

And that sadness will have a beauty of its own, a depth,

And that sadness will have a beauty of its own, a depth, a silence that always comes when you encounter death. That sadness will be very meditative. It will reveal something within you that life could not reveal. Life remains superficial, just like laughter, it remains superficial. Death is very deep, like sadness.

But sadness is not mourning, sadness has its own delight, sadness is not sorrow, sadness is simply depth. If you are sad that simply means that suddenly, the thinking has stopped, the death has been a shock you are stripped to your very depth. You cannot laugh, but there is a subtle delight in it, a silence, a sacred silence. 

Sadness will be there, but that is as it should be. When somebody departs you feel sad, but in that sadness soon you will discover a door, you have fallen to your own depth.

You are one of the ones from whom

You are one of the ones from whom I do not run away. That is remarkable in itself. 

Self care is putting yourself to bed

Self care is putting yourself to bed on a regular schedule because it’s the base treatment for mood disorders. There is no twist or anything it’s just really really good for you to sleep at consistent times. 

There is always something left to love.

There is always something left to love. 

Above anything else,

Above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the opposite sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you wanna talk to someone by 3 am, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. 

- Note to Self

Can you understand?

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much, so very much to learn. 

One ought to be more compassionate.

One ought to be more compassionate. 

A quiet and modest life brings more

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.