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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

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lise froissart

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Love has something to do with the notion of being seen — the opposite of invisibility. To truly see someone — anyone — is an act that acknowledges and forgives our common and imperfect humanity. Love says softly — I see you. I recognize you. You are human, as am I.

- Nick Cave

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Love should catch like food in the teeth.

(I’m once again trying to find the text post that Inspired this)

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CiKUS5Ajrh3

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Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

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every love letter anyone’s ever written me

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Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

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“To be touched - truly touched - that’s what I’m looking for. To unfold at a brush of skin like a rare flower blooming. To be surfaced at the curl of fingertips around my soul. I am so tired of shallow fun. I want my heart to shudder at a touch, to whisper, “here, here, it’s all yours.”

— Beau Taplin

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I COULD HAVE REALLY LOVED YOU, BY TRACEY EMIN 2011

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Alexa chung <3

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Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

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Lily of the Valley Bracelet by BotanicalBirdJewelry

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Pema Chodron

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bell hooks: Pema, one of the ideas in your work that really challenges me is abandoning the hope of fruition. That’s really hard for me.

Pema Chödrön: The way I understand it is that we rob ourselves of being in the present by always thinking that the payoff will happen in the future. The only place ever to work is right now. We work with the present situation rather than a hypothetical possibility of what could be. I like any teaching that encourages us to be with ourselves and our situation as it is without looking for alternatives. The source of all wakefulness, the source of all kindness and compassion, the source of all wisdom, is in each second of time. Anything that has us looking ahead is missing the point.

Source: from lionsroar.com (Pema Chödrön & bell hooks on cultivating openness when life falls apart)