#understand yourself

[positivelypositive]

🌹

if you've found...

...yourself struggling with the same problem again and again, then maybe it's time to look into the root causes.

just loving yourself isn't enough. sometimes you need to understand yourself from deep within so that you know why you struggle with what you do.

look deep inside so that you can be there for you. heal your way to happiness ✨

[hijamieitsme]

📝 I think it’s really good to have an understanding of yourself, to be able to put your finger on what drives you, what fuels your relationships...I have no problem in saying I’ve seen the dark depths of myself but it took me going to those places and finding where those places within me to really appreciate who I am now, today... 📝

[serenityquest]

[grace-williams-xo]

On the point of spirituality:

One of my best friends wrote a long essay in late high school about how the fall of religion happened, and shortly thereafter the fall of society, in a great many societies repeatedly throughout history.

The teacher said it was one of the best things he’d ever read in his decades teaching, and even years later I still think about it a lot.

Humans need something to believe in. It is intrinsic to who we are. Humans will have faith, and if we’re not careful and intentional, that faith is easily misdirected.

Like OP, I’m not personally into organised religion (but I love learning about them! And that’s part of understanding my own personal philosophies and spirituality) but that doesn’t have to matter.

You won’t know who you are when you’re young—and who you are will constantly evolve—but you need to live a constant journey of understanding yourself, your morals and your beliefs. Part of that is understanding what, or who, drives you to certain actions and beliefs.

It’s part of being human. Be spiritual, however that manifests.

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

[ometochtli2rabbit]

[heartsmade4more]

You are not here to make others understand you. You are here to understand yourself.

Kristen Butler

[taraxippos]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing of Iris Campbell from the film Final Destination Bloodlines. It depicts her on the night of the Skyview premonition, wearing her blue dress with white accessories. One of her hands in being pulled to the left out of frame, her body being tugged along with it. Her other arm hangs limply. Below the engagement ring, her ring finger is coloured a bright red, which drips off of it into a curved line. This line travels to the right and splits off into eight different lines of varying sizes, each one with an arrow tip. One of these arrows travels behind her head, and spirals as it travels. These tips all point towards a penny falling downwards. Iris is turning her head and gaze towards it. Her eyebrows bunch up and her mouth falls open slightly as sweat drips down her face. The background is a bold, warm yellow, which contrasts greatly against the blue of her dress and the red of the arrows.]

waiting for the penny to drop

[technically-human]

Stone, please, your boss is about to cause an international scandal

[imblocking-you]

The stress from cet szn mustve kept all of this at bay last year now it's all catching up to me, some years wotth of whatever accumalated, gunk just resting onmtop of my brain, seeping into the sinews, whatever whatnot. I am so fucking sick of this lol

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

i know that when people say "hey we made it through the last four years! we can do it again!" it's usually because they're just trying to tell themselves it'll be fine because they're scared too so I don't want to be a dick about it but like. they didn't have a guy make a fucking nazi salute to a fucking cheering crowd in his inauguration on day fucking one eight fucking years ago. i mean not to damper down the optimism or nothing but. i feel like it's important to point out that it's not just going to be a Repeat of 2016-2020 All Over Again. it's probably going to be more like the Fucking Worst of it that we got in 2020 (or the 2021 Fucking Insurrection) will be the Starting Point for whatever the fuck happens next and we should. idk. plan for that

[creatingtodayinvestinginme]

TIME TO UNDERSTAND YOU! #💯

And the first one in line to understand you is you 🫵🏼 #👣

No one knows what you like to eat until you tell them or why you like it until you describe how you respond to it.

No one knows how you want your haircut, or which clothes you want to wear each day… who can tell you why #you like the career you chose? Who knows what it felt like the first time you skinned your knee or had your heart broken??

WHO ARE YOU??? #🤔

It’s time for you to start learning you!

#gotime #now #today #inthismoment #understandyourself #learnyourself #beyou #thebestyou #livefully #lovefully #worthit #gratitude #thischangeseverything #fearLESS #live and #be #free #perspective #happiness #mindset #love #boba #bossupyourgame #lifebydesign

[bluebeesknees]

Pull me in 💙

[babyblankyerror]

Alexithymia 2.0

[reality-detective]

So let me get this straight…

Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein victim, survives a bus slam into her, despite being given just 4 days to live. Then, once she bravely claws her way back from the edge of death and on the road to recovery, she suddenly commits suicide? 👇

One of the first to speak out, Giuffre became a powerful force in the fight for justice against Epstein and his network.

Her courage inspired countless others to come forward, breaking the silence that had protected abusers for years. 👇

Virginia Giuffre claimed she was forced to have s*x with several powerful men—including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

The allegation was revealed by Alan Dershowitz, who cited her claims while attempting to undermine her credibility.

Giuffre also named Prince Andrew, New Mexico’s former Governor Bill Richardson, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, Hyatt chairman Tom Pritzker, and others.

Dershowitz sued Giuffre into silence. 👇

Just a reminder that the late Queen paid Virginia £12 million in an out-of-court settlement so that Andrew didn't have to face a jury trial on claims that he sexually abused and raped her when she was 17. 👇

The Telegraph reported that the total amount was upwards of $16 million and included a contribution from the monarch from her private Duchy of Lancaster estate, which means it wouldn't be coming from taxpayers' money. (yeah right) 👇

If true... May she R. I. P. 🙏

I AM seriously NOT be-LIE-ving this story 🤔