He has made everything beautiful in its season. #Ecclesiastes 3:11 #self-reliance #happiness

in dreams, hero and victim; in love, absence of an other #self-reliance #happiness

there is no commerce without education and no education without commerce there is no death without desire, and no desire without death there is no time without space and no space without time #self-reliance #happiness

it was a friendship forged and fed by fear #self-reliance #happiness

freedom is what is, all else is educated darkness #nevillegoddard #self-reliance #happiness

to see the seasons is to know death is one #self-reliance #happiness

and the moment i realized i had made roots in loneliness, my branches revealed the sky #self-reliance #happiness

the other is to meet myself #self-reliance #happiness

I do not consider the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state but to be everyone of them in states of the sleep, of which the soul may fall into in its deadly dream of good and evil. -- #williamblake #self-reliance #happiness

self-pity is Insidious and pernicious. #self-reliance #happiness

hell is denial, heaven is what is. #self-reliance #happiness

fear mistaken as love makes sacrifice virtuous #self-reliance #happiness

Love is the absence of sacrifice; sacrifice is the presence of fear. #self-reliance #happiness

Human work is to experience creativity, self-expression, and self-exploration. Machine work is for efficiency and productivity. Artificial intelligence reveals when and where humans make choices to be machines. #self-reliance #happiness

man makes idols and monsters of other men until, by grace, he remembers Who he truly is #self-reliance #happiness

problem is another name for fear #self-reliance #happiness

when i wonder if they got their lesson, i miss mine #self-reliance #happiness

tell me, how will the world end? only when you have fallen completely in love with all of it #self-reliance #happiness

the hero is a mirage in the desert of duality #self-reliance #happiness

time, warp and weft of desire #self-reliance #happiness

how does it feel to be the womb of all that is? every child is perfect to its mother. #self-reliance #happiness

blame masks blessings #self-reliance #happiness

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. -- #RalphWaldoEmerson #self-reliance #happiness

faith is true sight #self-reliance #happiness

wild rumpus and hot supper, loneliness and love, all goings are but homecomings #self-reliance #happiness

Love Is to see that it comes from within. #asyouwish #self-reliance #happiness

when i listen I am.heard #self-reliance #happiness

..tide comes in...waves slowly breaking, return...white foam arises and dissolves in the air...time takes on many names to carry out stories of having, losing, defeat, triumph.... #self-reliance #happiness youtu.be/bV8mOy9GoOE?...

"In case I don't see ya! Good afternoon, good evening, & good night." #Truman #JimCarrey #self-reliance #happiness

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently...invisibly. #WilliamBlake #self-reliance #happiness

Shame is pride's cloak. #WilliamBlake #self-reliance #happiness

We are here to endure the beams of love. -- #WilliamBlake #self-reliance #happiness

#WilliamBlake #self-reliance #happiness

Why stand we here, trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? -- #WilliamBlake #self-reliance #happiness

forgiveness is a practice of oneness; it dissolves all memories of leaving Home #self-reliance #happiness

Self-love sees beauty everywhere #self-reliance #happiness

disgust (n.) 1590s, "repugnance excited by something offensive" repugnance (n.) early 15c., fr Latin, 're-' "back" + 'pugnare' "to fight", mental antagonism ____ the voice of the critic harbors a heart of repugnance #self-reliance #happiness

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"Books are like mirrors; you only see in them what you already have inside of you." -- Carlos Ruiz Xafon ____ what i read reveals what i believe #self-reliance #happiness

to ask why the mosquito is to diminish the wildflower #self-reliance #happiness

"In the flight back to the hive, enzymes in their bodies add to the nectar. Forager bees at the hive transfer the nectar to the mouth of house bees that chew & regurgitate it for half an hour until transformed into honey." __ i am fed by what i am drawn to: Being #selfreliance #happiness

Circus (n.), latw 14c, from or cognate Greek 'kirkos' "a circle, a ring," applied by Romans to circular areas for performances & contests _____ skin is a circus of terror #self-reliance #happiness

This is the story of a story she liked telling & I hated hearing. For the first time, I listened. I put down my french fry, gazed into her eyes till she finished. I learned it is not about the story; it is about the feeling. Repulsion and condemnation. I welcome guests. #self-reliance #happiness

a criticism, a complaint, tell me i wandered away from happiness #self-reliance #happiness

Sarcasm (n.) 1570s, 'sarkazein' "to speak bitterly, to sneer", literally "to strip off the flesh" (like dogs) ______ a wolf in sheep's clothing, the laughter from sarcasm #self-reliance #happiness

Man is not the creature of circumstance; circumstances are the creatures of men. #BenjaminDisraeli #self-reliance #happiness

Thirty years ago sitting in their kitchen, his said to his wife who I was speaking to, "Do you realize she talks as fast as she thinks?" _____ The need for speed is a band-aid for sadness. #self-reliance #happiness

seed of resentment grows a garden of rightness and wrongness but of happiness, never #self-reliance #happiness

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. - The Guest House (excerpt), #JalaluddinRumi #self-reliance #happiness

Soliloquy (n.) c. 1600, 'soliloquie' fr Late Latin a talking to one's self, fr Latin 'solus' "alone" + 'loqui' "to speak". _____ dialogues, echoes of soliloquy #self-reliance #happiness