Forwarded from Basic Fucking Kindness
self care, rest, society, activism
"i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that's awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self-preservation"
"i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that's awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self-preservation"
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"i’ll lighten up eventually, but lately i’ve been deep diving into the “gift of tears” an ancient belief that some sorrow is sacred.
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early monks called it penthos: sorrow that cleanses, a second baptism. not weakness, but recognition but of beauty, grief, love and loss. a way the soul speaks when language fails.
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i’ve cried lately over kindness, grief, animals mourning their people. and it doesn’t feel pathetic. sometimes it feels devotional.
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they said if you cried during prayer, it meant divinity was near.
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if you’ve cried this week, maybe it wasn’t just sadness. maybe it was holy."
"i’ll lighten up eventually, but lately i’ve been deep diving into the “gift of tears” an ancient belief that some sorrow is sacred.
⠀
early monks called it penthos: sorrow that cleanses, a second baptism. not weakness, but recognition but of beauty, grief, love and loss. a way the soul speaks when language fails.
⠀
i’ve cried lately over kindness, grief, animals mourning their people. and it doesn’t feel pathetic. sometimes it feels devotional.
⠀
they said if you cried during prayer, it meant divinity was near.
⠀
if you’ve cried this week, maybe it wasn’t just sadness. maybe it was holy."
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