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The Earth would die if the Sun stopped kissing her.

Hafiz

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Sleeping At Last - "Saturn"

“How rare and beautiful it is to even exist...”

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Be here, now.

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Super helpful and relevant with a refreshing dose of humor!

If you have social anxiety or want a chance to win Body Shop products, watch this:

Asking Jude is a mental and emotional safe haven that provides free online therapy and guidance counselling. We provide assistance through text- and (now) video-based content for all. Today on Asking Jude, we will be talking about anxiety and hosting a giveaway. 

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There are moments in moist love when heaven is jealous of what we on earth can do. And there are gods who would trade their lives to have a heart than can know human pain, because our sufferings will allow us to become greater than any world or deity.

Hafiz

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Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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Taking the broken shards of pain and suffering and creating something new, something beautiful.

Jewelry made from upcycled weapons of conflict from Cambodia such as bullets, bombshells, and other miscellaneous accessories of war supporting local fair-trade artisans, while providing meals to disadvantaged children of Cambodia. Cambodia is one of the most bombed countries in the history of mankind with the largest amputee population in the world.

To learn more about the Purple Buddha Project:

http://www.purplebuddhaproject.com

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Words of wisdom from the charmingly intelligent Amy Poehler (Link to full interview)

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The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Rumi (via cultivating-kindness)

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

Voltaire (via wordsnquotes)

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“I know tomorrow is going to come because I've seen it. Sunrise is going to come, all you have to do is wake up. The future has been at war, but it's coming home so soon. The future looks like a child in a cape. The future is the map and the treasure. The future looks just like gravity: everyone is slowly drifting toward everyone else. We are all going to be part of each other one day. The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas. I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”

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We always talk about the need for open dialogue on mental illness and mental health awareness anytime a tragedy like Chester Bennington happens. It’s true. We do.

But can we please start replacing redundant rhetoric with action? Replace judgment with compassion? Replace pity with empathy?

We talk about the need for awareness, but anyone who is familiar with Linkin Park and Chester Bennington knows how open Chester was about his mental illness, his depression, his childhood abuse. It’s haunting remembering a recent interview in which Chester referred to his head as a bad neighborhood that he shouldn’t be walking through alone. I remember the interviewer laughing uncomfortably when Chester said this, as if not sure if he was being fully serious. It’s heartbreaking to recall how he said there’s another Chester inside his head that wants to take him down.

Somehow we didn’t take that seriously. Instead, the world lamented how Linkin Park had become soft, had sold out, had become mainstream pop. Yet listen to the last and final album (One More Light) of Bennington’s career and every song is yearning to tell the world what they should have already known.

So, yes, let’s start an open and more effective dialogue on mental illness.

When we tell someone with body-image issues to “just eat” or “you’re so skinny,” we’re not helping.

When we declare that depression is really just a choice, we’re not helping.

When we throw around platitudes such as “just pray” or “give it to Jesus” (I’m from the Bible Belt, so I’ve heard this one a lot), we’re not helping.

When we tell someone we know exactly what they’re going through, we don’t. When we tell someone it will get better, it might, but that’s not the point. Often they’re not looking for a pep-talk, but to know someone is there for them and gives a shit.

As a clinical mental health counselor myself, I can say there are two huge things we can do immediately to start changing the culture and stigma around mental illness. First, acknowledge its reality. Mental illness is a real thing, as real as any other medical condition. It’s not a switch someone can just flip on or off with enough willpower. Second, don’t try to be the problem-solver. Telling people how they should deal with it, therapists, churches, types of yoga, etc, might be well-intentioned, but it fails to embrace one simple thing: empathy.

Sitting with someone in their pain, in their darkness, is far more powerful than trying to dispel it. Sometimes the darkness can’t simply be dispelled, it can only be sat through. Accepting this too is the first step to overcoming it.

This is only a beginning, a small step in a better direction, but it is a step our society desperately needs to take if we are ever going to take mental illness as seriously as it needs to be.

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner