Title: Inside-er

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Sun Sign: Virgo

Chinese Sign: Fire Tiger

Location: St Louis, MO

You told me
you couldn't see a better day coming,
so I gave you my eyes.
- Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

I have arrived, I am home, in the here, in the now.

The phenomena of life is meaningless, and my life has meaning to the extent that I sustain life and allow for death.

Compassion, equanimity, love and joy.

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” - Pema Chödrön

“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don’t have anything but darkness to lose.” - Bob Dylan

“I’m saying you've already done plenty of things to regret, you just don't know what they are. It's when you discover them, when you see the folly in something you've done, and you wish that you had it do over, but you know you can't, because it's too late. So you pick that thing up, and carry it with you to remind you that life goes on, the world will spin without you, you really don't matter in the end. Then you will gain character, because honesty will reach out from inside and tattoo itself across your face. ” - The Big Kahuna

“Humans can’t live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it’s a veil of tears, man. I don’t know anything that’s going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.” - Townes Van Zandt

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” - Alan Watts

“I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.” - Michel Montaigne

“That I feed the hungry, forgive an insult, and love my enemy…. these are great virtues.
But what if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me, and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness; that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?” - Carl Jung

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Rainer Rilke

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” - Moulin Rouge

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