#somefoodforthought

Minna-san, konnichi wa!

Here is another quote to get us through the week. It's been a while, but here it is. Enjoy!

This quote is something that I am trying to implement into my life. ^^

- Marié 🌸

Here is another motivational quote to get us through the week. This is something that I need to implement more often. It is a good reminder of the toxicity and detrimental effects that comparing ourselves to others can cause. 

- Marié 🌸

Here is another motivational quote to get us through the week.

  Change can come from one small step and doesn't need to be anything drastic. Over time, small steps can lead to bigger changes.

  Just something to think about.

Emotional restraint goes a long way. Too often what we feel is substituted as a validation instead of a constructive perspective to heal a void in our self-esteem. Too often we become dependent on another human being and focus instead on the fulfillment we think we experience at their side when in reality it is merely the projection of safety overcoming (temporarily) the projection of insecurity. The self and the ego are the most important aspects of the individual personality. One must first reconcile any structural weakness through perseverance, consistency, and first and foremost awareness. Then and only then can the individual say he or she has completed the cycle of maturity; sadly in a world that is further and further frivolous in the pursuit of genuine strength, this is all too often simply not the case.

These appropriate and vital lessons are not internalized and instead a language that reveals the inner dependency and thus structural weakness is revealed in our daily use and vocalizations of self.

It is an understanding that one must arrive organically for it to be properly assimilated. A perspective that cannot be taught.

This perspective is often called self-respect when in truth it is simply and succinctly: self-love. Love thyself and you will discover the world is only a medium for which to express the creative architect present in all minds.

Only through self-love and genuine reflection of the ego can one find the capacity for sharing a life with another. Man has deemed time as a capable medium for which to accumulate a comparative standard from which to gauge the appropriate intensity as "real" and not only illusory for a reason.  Indeed, there is absolutely no substitution for the self as foundation for stability. To even consider the aspect of sharing this fundamental aspect of self-respect in terms of making another individual even partially responsible for its completion is not only immature in nature but irresponsible to the self and one's own happiness.

DO NOT DO THIS. EXERCISE STRENGTH IN MEASURE. EXERCISE CONTROL AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT ALL. Those who say otherwise have yet to experience the gauntlet and those who have already understand why this is such a vital ideology. 

In summation:

You need no one but yourself and once you have accepted this as truth may you then love in full capacity; only then may you attempt to observe the standard another must reach in order to love you as you love yourself.

Only then will you be free of any petty impulse or irrationality of unstable emotion in regards to insecurity, spite, or jealousy.

These things will no longer move you as you have finally understood where you stand, who you are, and thus who you are no longer.

Only then may you share the experience of life with another; two paths diverging in the same point bearing witness side by side to creation itself.