If you have ever been in an unhealthy, abusive, and/or codependent relationship with a partner, friend, organization, or place of employment, this journal entry by Issendai will probably sound very familiarIf you are currently someplace stuck, stressed out, unable to find your way out of your hole, and simultaneously feeling obliged to stay because ( Read more... )

( Divinity, Transformation, Manifestation, Relationship, Relaxation )

I've been trying to build this as an actual 3D image in my head, labels and all, but I suspect there's no one right answer on all of it, per se ( Read more... )

This is No Ordinary Love
( Bhakti Poetry in the Nirguna and Saguna traditions )

Not that I need permission for this, but I really just liked this week's horoscope:

Realism alone is not enough for human beings to live on, especially in our most intimate relationships. We need fantasy to augment the merely factual perspective. We require poetic truths to keep the rational approach honest. Without the play of the imagination, in ( Read more... )

It's not so much that he doesn't get near me, as that he doesn't tend to tell me things I don't already know:

( Gee Brezsny, ya think? )

I try not to do too many of these, because for the most part all y'all don't necessarily experience what I do in response to the song, so it's better if I tell you what's up than if I post a bunch of lyrics that I hope say it for me ( Read more... )

Love does not make relationships -
Love makes relationships worthwhile.

Love does not make choices -
Love makes choices significant.

Love does not solve problems -
Love makes problems worth solving.

Love can be effortless.
Relationships always take work.

--Ember--

Earning Love is like Arguing with an Earthquake.

You can try, but it's completely irrelevant to the nature of the thing.

--Ember--

It's sort of a relief to have what's stressing me out right now not be a sensitive subject for anyone who might read my rants - I don't have to censor myself in any way, for fear of causing more harm to some other than I heal in myself.

( Processing my lack of processing )