humanity
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Just Deal With It
Anytime life gets hard and we feel like giving up there's always someone there to tell us to just deal with it. But why, why the heck should we suffer? Why do people feel the need to tell us to suck it up and just deal with it? Is this really how life is supposed to be? We're just supposed to go through life uncomfortable and just accepting peoples terrible behaviors because we have to pay bills or because we want to hangout with family and friends?
By LeAnn Murch4 years ago in Psyche
Somewhere Along the Spectrum: Transcending Duality
Call it what you will, there have been many names for it throughout the millennia. In the beginning, or perhaps more accurately, a beginning, seeing as we live in a vast, infinite, multidimensional universe, there was the big bang, that point of singularity, unity, and the great creator did issue out the great primordial om, speaking into existence all that, 'I am." As Spiritual Leader Echart Tolle noted in this regard, "You are not in the universe, you are the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately, you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle...You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!" And perhaps the greatest exemplification of this is the way that as human beings, we all have the desire to grow, expand, and create, which is the very personification of the true essence of the universe.
By Aaron M. Weis4 years ago in Psyche
The Other Boy
The boy was an only child. Often, he surrendered to the deepest depths of his imagination to not feel so lonely and to escape from reality. The house of his upbringing—broken. Broken like the dishes that mother threw at father because he was gone for hours only to return smelling of booze and cheap perfume. It was no secret to the boy, merely 11 years of age, that he was born by accident. Two kids, now known as mother and father, accidently brought the boy into the world. Knowing he was a mistake and alone, the boy had no other choice but to surrender to his imagination. He would imagine what it was like to have a loving home with two older brothers and a younger sister. He would imagine large plates of spaghetti shared at a table big enough to seat his robust sized family. Thunderous laughter filled the air. Plates smashing, mother yelling. Back to reality. The boy could only escape for so long. This night was different—he couldn’t take it anymore. His grandmother’s painting of frozen lake with a happy mother and father ice skating landed abruptly by his feet. Smash. Foot through painting.
By Joshua Smoak4 years ago in Psyche
Why do we not normalize male emotions?
I recently was going through my Facebook posts for some reason I decided to go back in time and just start deleting posts that were random. I started deleting posts where I was checking in to movie theaters letting people know what movies I was watching. I started deleting posts that were just angry outbursts of frustration. I believe in my early years I used my Facebook as free therapy to vent my feelings.
By Jason Dilan4 years ago in Psyche
To make a flower live.
It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to make a flower live. To keep it from dying. The steps are simple. Water, but not to much, about two to three times a week. Keep it in sunlight, also a moderate amount. Too much or not enough of anything, especially the things that keep us alive, can end up terrible. However, a flower is nice and simple. Water and food.
By sidney king4 years ago in Psyche
Does All Creativity Come From Pain?
Sigmund Freud introduced this term, ‘sublimating’. I don't mean changing from a solid to a gas without bothering to turn into a liquid along the way which is chemical sublimation. I’ll explain it further. In Freud’s essay On Narcissism, Freud writes, “Sublimation is a process that concerns object-libido and consists in the instinct directing itself toward an aim other than, and remote from, that of sexual satisfaction; in the process, the accent falls upon deflection from sexuality.” For example, in Freud’s Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, he argues that da Vinici’s repressed homosexual desires drove his scientific and artistic research.
By Blessing Akpan4 years ago in Psyche
Order of the Heart IV
Mr. Edward Hurley had spent most of his life in either corrections or security. He worked his way from a grunt officer to senior Correctional Officer at the gate at a large Federal Prison in Kent, B.C. After retirement, he spent many years working for various security companies to occupy his time and feel like he was still an important member of society. Unfortunately, his beloved wife Beverly left him one day saying she was tired of being “Second Fiddle and to a uniform and badge.” When she left, she ended up with half his pensions and “Havah,” his favourite 38 revolver.
By Bruce Curle `4 years ago in Psyche
Is Life Precious Because It Is Infinite?
So not many people look forward to death, even if they’ve lived a long and satisfying life. So it would seem there’s a big appetite for the opposite of death or immortality and a lot of scientists are working on if not immortality, per se, at least extending life by many years. Isn’t life precious in large part because it is so finite? And if there were an avenue toward immortality, how desirable would you find that?
By Blessing Akpan4 years ago in Psyche
Deer Family,
Quietly driving down the backroads, impending rain brewing in the night sky. There was a big day ahead of me tomorrow and the storm seemed like a mirror image of the anxiety inside of me. Lighting up behind the clouds, you could feel the moisture in the air and any minute now it was about to break through. Anxiety has been something that has overcome me, and even my best intentions, since I was a kid. That sudden feeling of Doom. Preparing for any important event, big and small, thinking of every little thing that could go wrong. Anything that could ruin the happiness you are trying to manifest. Its debilitating, frustrating and all consuming sometimes.
By Stella Marie4 years ago in Psyche
Self-exploration
SELF EXPLORATION (SOGHAT JAVED) Self-exploration which is also known as self-realization at the right time is the best thing that can happen to oneself. Self-Realization is the continuous process whereby an individual’s self-concept is enhanced every time they experience some change.
By soghat javed4 years ago in Psyche
