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Miao Dao  by amazing Han Liang 🥰🔥

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Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

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Artist  Jon Foreman Arranges Stones In Stunning Patterns On The Beach, Finds It Very Therapeutic

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““Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…””

— Timothy Leary (via amortizing)

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Ron Smoorenburg showing off his kicking skills against Jackie Chan in Who Am I? (1998)

Bonus - A brief flurry of kicks where stunt double, Brad Allan, had to step in for Smoorenburg. Notice the size difference:

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Sunlight passing through the wings of a Black Jacobin Hummingbird forms a prism of rainbows.

(Photo Credit: Christian Spencer)

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If someone tries to murder you with their flaming pipe of death, just set your hand on fire and show them what’s up.

Hero Among Heroes (1993)

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Faroe Islands, Denmark

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Does money make you mean? In a talk at TEDxMarin, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: badly.)

To learn more, watch the whole talk here»

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