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The only way to be extraordinary depends on what I do with the ordinary.

The pain of losing transmutes into the beauty of having discovered something more important than someone who can promise you forever.

The Errand Friend Hang
The Errand Friend Hang
anti-individualism, radical love
by jade simon
15 blocks • about 7 hours ago
bell hooks, Love as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks, Love as the Practice of Fre…
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“You know, when I start telling you something by saying, ‘I was thinking about what you said about …,’ it always gives me pleasure to say that, to let you know that I was brooding on your words. And I think the pleasure is … well, I know how much I love it when you say ‘I was thinking about what you said about …’ It’s somehow as though the part of you that’s in me will be able to nourish the part of me that’s in you, or-something-I don’t know how to put it. But that there’s some circuit of reciprocity between these holding relations: your ability to hold me inside you, and mine to hold you inside me.”

∆ Eve Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love

∆ Eve Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love
platonic love as the blueprint
by jade simon
60 blocks • about 10 hours ago

Love has something to do with the notion of being seen — the opposite of invisibility. The invisible, the unwitnessed, the unacknowledged, the isolated, the lonely — these are the unloved. Loving attention illuminates the unseen, escorting them from the frontiers of lovelessness into the observed world. To truly see someone — anyone — is an act that acknowledges and forgives our common and imperfect humanity. Love enacts a kind of vigilant perception — whether it is to a partner, a child, a co-worker, a neighbour, a fellow citizen, or any other person one may encounter in this life. Love says softly — I see you. I recognise you. You are human, as am I.

— Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue #103

Nick Cave

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

it’s not about changing how you feel. It’s about listening. Not accepting what they appear to mean—that’s important—but really following your instincts down to what they are trying to signal. They are how you communicate with yourself.