Striking Thoughts

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”

“Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.”

“We shouldn’t be afraid of making mistakes. What we should really afraid of is repeating the same mistake.”

“If you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning For example: You watch the sun set too often, it just becomes 6 PM. You make the same mistake over and over; you’ll stop calling it a mistake If you just wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, one day you’ll forget why”

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”

“As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it’s about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.”

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”– because he likes you anyways.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

How embarrassing it is when you talk so highly about someone who ends up disappointing you.

Have you ever platonically fallen for someone? For the things they say and how they can always cheer you up, no matter the circumstances? For how you can count on them and the way they get so enthusiastic about the things they love? Have you ever watched someone without them noticing and just felt your heart burst of love for everything they do and everything they are, feeling incredibly proud to have them as a friend? Have you ever been in awe due to the feeling of being blessed by the sheer existence of another human being?

This scale has always been pretty uneven, always tilting much more in my direction. I spill too much, feel too much, love too much and you take it all. Take and take and take but don’t give, just leave when you’ve had your fill like a relative I only see on Thanksgiving. And you’re supposed to be friends, right? Friends are supposed to stay, aren’t they? Or am I supposed to go by your definition and accept that friends just come and go? I don’t want to believe that, but you leave easily like our bond means nothing. And I suppose that’s just it, maybe I mean nothing to you, but you mean everything to me. I’m tired of being expendable. I’m tired of you. I’m tired.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

You are all afraid of being intimate with yourselves - of being alone with the self. Once you develop an intimacy, a silence, a self-love, and a containment of your energy, then you will want to make that aspect of intimacy your standard of intimacy with someone else.

You keep telling me about moderation. That a little is enough. But sometimes for some of us, a little is not enough. Because, when it comes to something like wild walks or vulnerability or truth or heart - racing conversation or ecstatic contemplation or mind bending intimacy or all that catapults us into the flow, form and timelessness of our own aliveness, I am telling you that we deserve more than moderation.

A person who never learned to trust confuses           intensity with intimacy,           obsession with care,           and control with security.