When we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love.
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in d
People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.
Love is not something other people can give you.
[Think about] how love would save your life if it were capable of doing such things (It is).
[Think about] what you subconsciously love about the 'problems' you struggle to get over. Nobody holds onto something unless they think it does something for them.
It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking rather than to think your way into a new way of acting.
You will never be ready for the things that really matter.
Understanding the fabric of resistance is the only way we can unstitch it.
Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation.
There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.
Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.
We buoy between extremes: not caring about anything or caring so much about one thing it could break us all together.
The idea that beautiful, joyous things could simply be ours without any conscious creation of them on our part is terrifying, because the opposite could just as well be true.
We hear our instincts, we just don't listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing.
Happiness is arriving at the end goal. Deciding to be that way every day can make it seem as though the race is already over, so we subconsciously associate 'happiness' and 'acceptance' with 'giving up.'
Everybody has a limited tolerance for feeling good. When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so that we can return to our comfort zones.
As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we're accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage. We are programmed to seek what we've known. So, even though we think we're after happiness, we're actually trying to find whatever we're most accus…
Trying to change how you feel is like finding a road sign that points in the opposite direction of where you had intended to go and getting out to try to turn the sign, rather than the course of action.
Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.
Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.