"Never think your way is the only way. We are part of a tapestry of life. We are human people. But we share this universe with other people. Trees- the standing people. Rocks- the sitting people. Rivers and oceans -the flowing people, and the sun and the moon, and all the stars and rocks; the earth, the sky. We are two-legged creatures, but we share this earth with four-legged creatures, winged-creatures, finned-creatures, and all above and below that are Alive in this tapestry called Life. Recognize that All that Is contains you, but this is not about just you. It’s about all, not just humans, and not just animals, not even just this earth, but all Life. When you open to this, then you can be a true leader, true ambassadors for peace. Then you may unite all beings, no matter their color or amount of legs, no matter their existence as human or tree. You may then see that who we really are is Life. And life is alive in All. We come we go, but always we are formed with life by life, eternal and free, wise and loving. This Life loves itself already. You don’t need to do a thing. Just recognize Life in all things and all beings, and life’s love will flow through you effortlessly, naturally. You don’t need to know a thing, you can see the big picture without thinking a thing. Like an Eagle that flies above seeing all things with sharp vision, but not making any decisions or conclusions about what he sees. See, be open, but do not do the work of understanding. All of that comes from life, for it knows itself, and to those that choose to see life in all, it will reveal itself in many ways. But always it is simple: not about you, not about you, not about you. It is Life. If you see you are life; all about you, only you, always you. We come into this life with eagle vision, we experiment with the many flavors and flowers of life like a hummingbird, we contemplate and discern what is good to digest and what is not like the bear, then we take on the Great Responsibility to pass on our wisdom of what we have learned like the white bull. Then we drop our form, and return to life. Then again we come in another form. This is the cycle of the wheel of life."
- Lessons from a Native American. (via you-are-that)
“I’m trying to be an artist, but my parents just don’t understand. I showed a painting to my mom, and I was like: ‘Do you like it?’ And she was like: ‘I guess, but why is there a cigarette? Are you smoking now?’ And I was like: ‘No, Mom. The cigarette represents pain.’ And she was like: ‘Did we not love you enough?’”
kids are fucking fragile, ok? when you have no life experience you have nothing to compare your troubles to and many things ARE, in fact, the worst thing to ever happen to you.
i’m 20. and i had a rough week this week. and one of the reasons it wasn’t as rough as it could have been is because i have had worse. i have been in more pain than this before and it was really helpful to be able to say to myself, yes, ok, i’m feeling like a massive pile of shit right now, but i remember how i felt when thing x happened y years ago and that was objectively more horrible and if i got through that then i’m going to survive this.
when i was 16 i couldn’t do that because thing x was in fact the worst thing to ever happen to me. because when you haven’t lived very long some of the things that happen WILL be the worst things to ever happen to you and you’re fucking allowed to be angry and upset and so on. there is no age you have to reach before you’re allowed to feel bad. i can’t believe this discourse tbh.
kids are fragile and they’re dismissed all the time for having feelings because shitty ass adults are so selfish that they can’t wrap their minds around the idea that MAYBE their feelings aren’t more important than a child’s. seriously fuck off maybe if someone had taken me seriously as a kid i’d be a functional adult
