#self defining

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Alignment isn’t just about feelings. You can feel closer to one binary gender and still not consider yourself aligned to it. There are MANY reasons why someone may not consider themselves aligned and they’re not just about the gender(s) you feel. These can range from social reasons to just feeling dysphoric/uncomfortable being grouped under a binary label.

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are. [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Folding tent

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Tumblr's starting to make me nauseous. There's too much pomp and self defining going on. Most blogs, including my own, are frozen in the past, never capable of moving forward or creating. It's becoming the cheap thrill of aesthetic pornography.