Man who lies to himself

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.”

✍️FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

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Make yourself a priority

Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can’t destroy yourself for the sake of someone else. You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful — you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself. ~Daniell Koepke

Love is no easy path ❤️🙌

Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another- they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives- they have another path and purpose to walk first. Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality. Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love’s leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment. But this is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don’t- they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is no easy path- readiness is everything. May we grieve loss without personalizing it. May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover. ~Jeff Brown

Mars message for men

MARS, now moving through its retrograde shadow, is heading straight into some heavy clashes. The first real hit builds up this Sunday/Monday as our masculine energy takes a shameful blow from both the SUN and CHIRON. At the same time, VENUS is preparing for some equally diabolical work before she makes her shift into righteously ordained Sagittarius late next week.

One thing I must say, when men avoid facing their own wounds, they carry a hidden weapon. Unexamined pain is volatile; it spills out into the world, often hitting the people closest to them. Avoidance turns inward suffering into outward damage. By refusing to look within, they become haunted by shadows that demand expression—whether through anger, control, or callous detachment. Real strength isn’t in pretending the pain doesn’t exist—it does—it’s in summoning up the courage to sit with it, to understand it, and to prevent it from wreaking havoc on others. And those “others” are done with that chit.

No one’s exempt from this energy. In the wake of the eclipses, these coming days lead us into Thursday’s Full Moon—the most intense Supermoon of the year.

~ Ang Stoic

For more about this, join Sunday’s live Cosmic Bus with Ang Stoic: https://angstoic.com/2020/04/catching-the-cosmic-bus-with-ang/

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Real love is no easy path

“Sometimes people walk away

from love because it is so

beautiful that it terrifies them.

Sometimes they leave because

the connection shines a bright

light on their dark places and

they are not ready to work them

through.

Sometimes they run away because

they are not developmentally

prepared to merge with another,

they have more individuation work

to do first.

Sometimes they take off because

love is not a priority in their lives;

they have another path and

purpose to walk first.

Sometimes they end it because

they prefer a relationship that is

more practical than conscious,

one that does not threaten the

ways that they organize reality.

Because so many of us carry

shame, we have a tendency to

personalize love’s leavings,

triggered by the rejection and

feelings of abandonment.

But this is not always true.

Sometimes it has nothing to do

with us.

Sometimes the one who leaves is

just not ready to hold it safe.

Sometimes they know something

we don’t, they know their limits

at that moment in time.

Real love is no easy path,

readiness is everything.

May we grieve loss without

personalizing it.

May we learn to love ourselves

in the absence of the lover.”

Jeff Brown 💫

Pure Love vs Romantic Love

Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely loving another was enough, you wouldn’t suffer because of unrequited love. As long as the other person was happy, there wouldn’t be any need to suffer because you weren’t being loved in return. What makes people suffer is the desire to be loved by another person. So I decided that romantic love and pure love for a person are not the same. And that by following this you could lessen the pain of unrequited love.

– Haruki Murakami

She knows

“Nobody knows a man better than the woman who’s in a relationship with him, and when I say nobody, I mean NOBODY… nor his mother, father, colleagues, sisters/brothers.

Everyone only sees one side of him, but that woman who’s with him gets the raw and unfiltered version of him, the broken version, the loving version, the hateful version, the crazy and unstable version.

So you can never tell a woman “I don’t think he’s like that” or “I don’ t think he would” because in reality the one who knows that man better than anyone is her. ” 🥰❤️

Gilded Cage – Easy Virtue / Mia Asher

“After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again.”

― Mia Asher, Easy Virtue