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11/18/2025

Similar message but two different meanings.

In the top of the photo, the circles are split apart. This symbolizes the feeling of disconnect between two people that arise when someone says "you can come if you want." - It can be very off-putting and make you feel like the desire to hang out is one-sided.

On the other hand, the bottom of the photo symbolizes unity and connection - the circles are joined together, because of how well the invitation to spend time together was extended.

11/17/2025

The quiet part out loud 😬

12/31/2021

I remember the phrase ‘meaning of life’ used to make me cringe so badly.

It is something that always sounded so abstract and made me feel particularly uncomfortable, probably because of the struggles I’ve endured in my life over the years with feeling meaning.

Eventually, my mind grew rebellious toward the idea of it.

Was meaning something I was just going to randomly walk into one day?

Or was it already in me and just needed to be excavated and carried to the surface?

I did not have the slightest clue—so I just shoved it out of my mind and passively behaved as if meaning was a spiritual facade.

My life demonstrated the consequences of such a mentality: I became increasingly volatile.

Without a bigger picture in mind, every small circumstance in my life became heightened in importance and impact on my inner state.

I became more shallow and unkind because I was not grounded in my own skin.

For instance, I would get easily offended by others comments even when they were valid things to say. I would lash back sharply, causing more damage in the process.

I was like a paranoid sailor travelling without a compass or map, scanning the pristine water on the lookout for thieving pirates.

Upon first thought, one would probably not connect getting easily offended with lacking meaning in their life.

But, meaning is foundational. You build your inner house on it. It subconsciously seeps into every other area of your life.

When you feel it, other’s opinions don’t sway you as much because you are more sure of who you are and where you are headed. It becomes easier to just be kind in every way.

I now understand that I have been looking at meaning the wrong way for most of life.

Instead of searching for it, meaning is something you cultivate for yourself.

It is something you make the decision to show up for because it is usually bigger than yourself.

I’m curious, what are your takes on meaning? 🧠

11/10/2020

Last year, I went to see a therapist for the first time and it was extremely helpful. I was able to speak freely to someone about anything & everything going on in my life with the assurance of knowing I am not being judged. For someone like me who often feels like I repress my deepest emotions, this was new to me.

I remember she told me something that stuck with me. When I told her I was dealing with anxiety and intrusive thoughts, she asked me, “What do you do when you feel anxiety?” I responded, “I breathe, or I meditate, or I try to think other more positive thoughts.” She looked at me with an “aha” look on her face and told me that I needed to do something physical with that anxiety.

She told me “you just can’t stay still – you need to move around, go for a run, do something.. you need to get out of your head and do something with that energy inside of you, because that’s what emotions are: energy.”

This was a revelation to me. She emphasized that when we don’t do anything physical with our emotions, they get stuck in our body.

When we turn down the volume on our emotional experience, we also turn down the volume on our vitality and the possibility to express ourselves freely and authentically. This, contrary to what we might think, costs us a tremendous amount of energy. Nature would never construct anything unnecessarily - being able to feel emotions and feelings is part of our biology.

Emotional expression is a mechanism just as any other part of our complex bodily nature. Just as pain receptors respond when we touch fire - signaling our senses to stay away from danger as our survival is at risk - emotion arises to give us feedback about the outside as well as our inner world. We have to listen to it. If we do not, it will remain in our bodies until we give our attention and resolve the situation.

So get out of your head and connect more with your body.. you can’t think yourself out of anxiety no matter how hard you try. 💡

09/26/2020

We are living under a great illusion: we feel as if we have so much control over our thinking. It’s not your fault though, we have been conditioned this way.

I am just throwing a number out here, but I would say that generally, we are unconscious of our thinking for 90% of the day. And these unconscious thoughts are always going on in our head. Imagine that these unconscious thoughts produce the following sound: beep, beep, beep.

Now, there are sometimes when we do consciously catch ourselves in a thought stream and we notice ourselves ruminating. Immediately, we attach to the thought and we feel as if it is a part of us, instead of a thought we are just witnessing. Imagine a conscious thought makes the following sound: whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Furthermore, let’s combine the two sounds, conscious and unconscious. When we catch ourselves in a thought stream, the rhythm sounds like this: beep, beep, beep, whoosh.

The “whoosh” has begun to serve as a cue signal to us to feel in control and mostly responsible for our thinking. That’s what is going on in your mind all day: millions and millions of rhythms, and the cue signal has served as a very powerful, overarching loop in our mind.

It’s very interesting to look at the world this way, because it begins to make you feel a bit powerless, which naturally causes us anxiety because it goes against everything we’ve been conditioned to believe. The human illusions that we live under as a result of our consciousness are truly so fascinating.

09/25/2020

This always happens.

I say “I’m going to be so happy when I get _____” and slowly that fades away, and it turns into a new desire unconsciously.

What I wanted before doesn’t bring me the happiness because I’m already looking toward the future for the next thing.

I’m currently battling this with my housing situation. I’m looking for my very own first apartment and it has been incredibly challenging to find something within my budget.

I get frustrated, because I tell myself “my life is going to be so much more fun and enjoyable when I have my own place” but this mentality won’t serve me well based on this pattern I’ve noticed. Once I move into my place, another desire will take front & center, and my mental energy will be focused on acquiring that.

It’s a never-ending cycle. It’s hard to feel happy now though when you feel like you don’t have what you want. But it’s incredibly important to not fall into this trap.

09/23/2020

Swipe through to see just exactly what kinds of questions are always on my mind 🤔😅

09/23/2020

I feel you Jim, this is something that enters my mind all the time: why doesn’t the world as a whole think about this? Why isn’t this thinking promoted by our governments, and our society as a whole? 🤔

09/22/2020

Woah 😳 this is fun to think about.

09/20/2020

This is legit how it feels a lot of the time 😅

09/19/2020

This concept is so intriguing.

Consider the possibility that we are all connected— you and I, the trees, the rocks, the water, everything.

For some reason, out of all these things we’re connected to, we seem to be the only ones capable of consciousness, capable of witnessing the world around us.

What if we are just the universe having fun? Nothing more, nothing less?

Let me frame it another way: what if we are the entire universe just simply “trapped” in the human body? And this entrapment causes us to forget just how magnificent we really are?

Our consciousness causes us to think we’re disconnected from everyone else, everything else. But we are everything.

All the problems you think you have in your life get reduced in importance once you truly play with the idea that the “you” that you think exists as a separate ego isn’t really there & doesn’t really exist.

You are the universe playing hide & seek with itself.

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