March 2012
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The Brain on Love (New York Times) →
psychotherapy:
via NYTimes.com:
by Diane Ackerman
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.
All...
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“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
– Matthew 11:28
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sometimes i think about how much i would hate my life if i lived as a cat.
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and I miss you, and I need you. and that’s...
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Alexi Murdoch - Wait
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*Hears noises at night*: Well this is it this is the end for me. I had a good life.
*Gets shampoo in my eyes*: I guess I'm blind now. How am I going to go on? Holy shit.
*Heart is beating fast*: I think I am having a heart attack. Is this what cardiac arrest feels like?
*A cop walks by*: Here I go, I'm about to get arrested. I probably murdered someone and forgot. I'm sure they know about when I smoked that one time.
*Taking a test*: Don't take your eyes off of this paper or you will get caught cheating and get kicked out of school.
*Gets a sunburn*: Skin cancer.
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“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in...”
– Philip James Bailey
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“My whole life I’ve hated going to bed. I like falling asleep instead. Falling...”
– John Mayer (via sandwhichartistintraining)
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blanket forts
reading scriptures
thinking and talking about Christ
being a nerdfighter
forest green
big sighs
sleeping in just a sheet
sushi
accidental alliteration
liking something, but not being able to explain why
playing guitar outside in nice weather or inside, looking out at “bad” weather
gratitude
planning a surprise ;)
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“I feel like sometimes I’m in my own little world and you’re always next to me...”
– Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (via tibolanmou)
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Recently a friend of mine mentioned that she didn’t really get the point that John Green tried to make in TFiOS about, “The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate” and I have to agree. We thought about how pain is necessary in contrast to… pleasure, or happiness; you need one to know the other. If there were only happiness, then that would just be the only...
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“God is in the timing”
one last text after hanging up, then staying up even later texting for hours
mysteries of being a “psycho-somatic unity”
large group dance scenes
mist or fog in street lights (at night)
(amazing) things that “don’t make sense”
riding on the back of those trailers at farms
being “fake angry” at each other
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via presidiums)
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xovhumana:
eternal sunshine of the spotless...
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“You start to get angry with reality when you try to hold onto the expectation of...”
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Do you believe, “If it is meant to be, it will be”...
Um, maybe to an extent. But I think things are probably a lot more complex than that and things wont “just happen” because they are “meant to” without any effort or choice on your part… I believe in God, and that God has an active part in our lives, so He may have a plan for each of us, but He also gave us free will, and the way His world works includes the decisions of people and the works they...
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“So these are the new circumstances, and I’ll find a way to make it mean...”
– John Mayer
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Sorry for the late replay, hopefully the anon who asked this is still sticking around for an answer. Hmm ok, I guess I would start back a year ago (I could probably trace it back further, but that would take a lot of thought-power… much more than I’m willing to spend on it right now) when I took the 100 course in my university’s Christianity and Culture program. We read a book called What...
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“Are there magic words? I think we all know there are; there are operative words....”
– Peter Kreeft, The Language of Beauty: The Power of Names
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“Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here!”
– Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
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readingtheword:
“And this also is like what I’ve known in wars: when that which was only they orthe enemy all at once becomes the man, two feet away, who means to kill you” —Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis.
Talking about a “they” or “the enemy” is like talking about an idea, and an idea can have some affect on you and can evoke some fear or other feelings in you, but the reality changes the...
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“But for Thomas, prayer is simply the recognition of what things are. Everything is a gift. To ask God for what I desire and to thank God when I receive it is living in the real world. It is opening our eyes to the pure gratuity of being. The word ‘thank’ derives from ‘think’. Thanking is thinking truly and praying helps us to think well. For Thomas, to look at...
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customizable:
I was sitting at the bottom of the stairs with my knees to my chest and my chin on my knees and my arms wrapped around my shins in my bathing suit that was still damp.
I was looking out the window, the big one next to the front door. It was dark out, bluish-gray like the color of jeans.
Were there people outside? Or in the house? I can’t remember. Well anyway, that’s when it...
