#WISDOM

[itstimetomotivate]

[deepdiveastro]

[blindfolded-nakedtruth]

The best compliment is to accept someone with whatever they have.

[slips-posts]

Media has distorted our view of relationships.

We’ve lost the true joy of being heard—of truly listening to another person’s sorrows and joys, of witnessing their life.

We all die and are forgotten, but instead of facing that inevitability, we escape into ‘window-shopping’ for partners and friends—treating them like commodities to be discarded when their ‘value’ fades.

Love isn’t about finding someone who reads your mind—it’s about staying to hear the words.

Many relationships would be a lot healthier if we romanticized honest, open and direct communication instead of idealizing the idea of a partner who's intuitively in tune with your every need. You don't need someone who can read your mind, you just need someone who's willing to listen when you speak.

[warrioroflight5000]

maga is little dick energy 🤏

[lipikkawrites]

A lot will go wrong before everything goes right.

Keep moving forward.

-@lipikkawrites

[lazyyogi]

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

[psiotechniqa]

laugh at the chad - perhaps - but you're also supposed to recognize that the virgin walks like a submissive loser. you're not supposed to emulate that either

The original 'virgin vs chad' meme

I feel like everyone is sick of those stupid soyjack vs Chad "my opinion is good and based and correct, your opinion bad and wrong and stinky" memes by this point, as they're some of the lowest forms of current internet 'humor.' But precisely because those memes are so bad and also everywhere, I feel it's worth giving some credit to the fact that the original "The Virgin Walk / The Chad Stride" was actually a brilliant meme.

"The Virgin Walk" image showed up first, and it was standard 4chan stuff - which is to say, highly negative. Just a whole bunch of random small traits that people can have, bundled together in an accusatory way to try and make people insecure about them having "virgin" posture, by the kind of people who genuinely worries about being an "alpha male" (Or possibly pointing out their own flaws as a form of self-hatred, flip a coin when it comes to 4chan)

And then, on another thread, someone made the Chad Stride edit to go along with it.

It's a great piece of satire by how simple it is. Just by taking the traits listed in the original image, then inverting and exaggerating them, the result is an absurd caricature of a man who does not (and should not) exist. Through exaggeration, it demonstrates how the people who constantly worry about seeming 'Chad-like' are chasing after behaviour that is utterly unhinged and disconnected from reality.

I think this gif demonstrates it perfectly by putting it in motion:

Virgin is a normal, if insecure dude. Chad is an absolute fucking maniac. (Not to mention all the references to violence in the image)

So, while it did degrade into those awful soyjak memes we all know and hate because that is the nature of the internet, I feel like it's worth remembering that in the original image that spawned this entire trend, you're supposed to laugh at Chad. You shouldn't want to be Chad, because he's the menace to society [ credit to the gif's creator: https://x.com/art_miguelito/status/1107313740033212417 ; thanks to @softwaring for linking it ]

[masterjiqun]

Asking for Trouble

One who tends to afflict himself can always find all kinds of troubles, and then worry about them with conviction.

[minimalist-quotes]

When you die they won't remember your car or house. They will remember who you were. Be a good human, not a good materialist.

[the-inspiring-quotes]

A lot of things broke my heart but fixed my vision.

[ariaiscursed]

[boyjumps]

“Tathagata's compassion explains the causes and consequences of suffering, removes the pain, and grants peace.” - Kukai

Kukai was a pioneer of Esoteric Shingon Buddhism, and the "Tathagata" he spoke of was referring to Vairocana ("Great Sun Buddha"), the highest being in Buddhism. Vairocana is considered to be the Dharmakaya Buddha, the very truth of the universe, and the origin of all Buddhas.

The Trikāya ( lit."three bodies) is a fundamental Buddhist doctrine that explains the multidimensional nature of Buddhahood, referring to the three forms of the Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism.

Dharmakāya: (lit: "truth body" or "reality body”): the truth of the universe itself. Originally it has no form or shape.

Saṃbhogakāya:( lit. 'body of enjoyment’): A Buddha who saves all living beings and who sometimes appears in human form as a means to save humans.

Nirmāṇakāya: refers to the physical manifestation of a Buddha in time and space. The Buddha incarnated and appeared as a human being to save sentient beings.

Kukai (b. 27 July 774 – d. 22 April 835),  posthumously called Kōbō Daishi ("The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma"), was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism.

[slips-posts]

We long for the peace and quiet of nature it reminds us that better days are coming.

[spiritualseeker777]