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I believe in opacity. "The inner voice of the poet protects the poet," something in the first page of Teeter by Kimberly Alidio. As a Buddhist I think that allowing a life to proceed without intervention protects the vitality of living, though as a Buddhist I also believe in contradiction. Here it's that my interventions to life proceeding is also a way of allowing life to proceed.
I need to believe in sincerity as much as I believe in opacity. Which is to say, I need to believe in my interventions. My belief in opacity has dulled, and I'm not in a place to articulate its convictions anymore. I used to be softer! My wisdom was to let things happen while I let myself happen. When my life hardened I leaned into my opaque-shaded beliefs..maybe it protected me. I'm working up to opening my sensitivity to intervention, and I need to reopen myself up to my life to do it. & to do that, I need to be open with it too (via microblogging I guess).
I need to believe in sincerity as much as I believe in opacity. Which is to say, I need to believe in my interventions. My belief in opacity has dulled, and I'm not in a place to articulate its convictions anymore. I used to be softer! My wisdom was to let things happen while I let myself happen. When my life hardened I leaned into my opaque-shaded beliefs..maybe it protected me. I'm working up to opening my sensitivity to intervention, and I need to reopen myself up to my life to do it. & to do that, I need to be open with it too (via microblogging I guess).
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Recently sharing my art, an extension of my love, has been a bit scary, but rewarding. A closeness and intimacy is shared that leads to a clearer understanding.
Opening up myself and being vulnerable has never been easy for me. I grew up in a family where affection was never loud. Love was tuned in silence.
Recently sharing my art, an extension of my love, has been a bit scary, but rewarding. A closeness and intimacy is shared that leads to a clearer understanding.
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🌠Can’t pigeon hole people. I can hold ten thousand identities and feelings at once.
Today I was overwhelmed with the world and my place in it. it all seemed too big and confusing. We live in such heated times where our identities are put on trial. it’s hard to embrace who you are when you are constantly confronting yourself. There seems to be little comfort or sense in any of it.
Then in this online world I’m flooded with every bit if information possible and it keep putting my brain in overdrive. I seem to be loosing myself in it.
But then again Buddism comes through with its view of the self. Fluid and forever changing. Their is no defined or definite self we are our environments and everything we have ever learned and been a part of. This lack of constant on my being seems to calm the confusion on who I am or who I am supposed to be. I am fluid and forever changing.
All I ask of myself is to embrace this, open myself up to this world and explore whatever I can.
Today I was overwhelmed with the world and my place in it. it all seemed too big and confusing. We live in such heated times where our identities are put on trial. it’s hard to embrace who you are when you are constantly confronting yourself. There seems to be little comfort or sense in any of it.
Then in this online world I’m flooded with every bit if information possible and it keep putting my brain in overdrive. I seem to be loosing myself in it.
But then again Buddism comes through with its view of the self. Fluid and forever changing. Their is no defined or definite self we are our environments and everything we have ever learned and been a part of. This lack of constant on my being seems to calm the confusion on who I am or who I am supposed to be. I am fluid and forever changing.
All I ask of myself is to embrace this, open myself up to this world and explore whatever I can.
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