“Let jealously be your teacher. Jealously can lead you to the very places where you most need healing. It can be your guide into your own dark side and show you the way to total self-realization. Jealously can teach you how to live in peace with yourself and with the whole world if you let it.”

—	Deborah Anapol, Love without Limits (via nirvikalpa)

I’m just human. I have weaknesses, I make mistakes, and I experience sadness; but I learn from all these things and they make me a better person.

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.

A Positive Reality

If you choose to cause harm, then you will be harmed by it as well. If you choose to create value, then you will benefit from that value.
If you direct your efforts against the interests of others, those efforts will also work to oppose your own true interests. When you work to support others, you also end up supporting and advancing your own life.
Negativity is universally destructive, regardless of the direction in which it is focused. Genuine love is universally creative and beneficial, and goes far beyond its intended object.
Don’t bring your whole world down by obsessing over who or what you are against. Lift your world higher by supporting and advancing the values and visions you are for.
Let go of the fears that hold you back. Grab hold of your most treasured dreams, for they will bring out your highest levels of effectiveness and creativity.
Put your energy and efforts into what you favor. The way to experience a positive reality is to constantly keep your focus on a positive vision.
— Ralph Marston

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Things to Remember

Reasons to Stay Alive

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The Punk World Gets a Reality Check

In one of the most interesting/unexpected turns ever...Against Me! frontman Tom Gable has come out to Rolling Stone as transgender. She will be going under hormone therapy and reassignment surgery, eventually taking the name Laura Jane Grace. I cant imagine the amount of courage it takes to do this, much less as the head of an extremely popular punk band. While in an ideal world, the Punk community is as diverse and as accepting as it often thinks itself to be, i think in reality that this is going to be a difficult adjustment for many in the punk world.

personally? i think its pretty damn awesome that she has the courage to do this. Against Me! is one of my favorite bands, so i will be sad to see their sound change, but super interested to see what happens from here on out. Show your support!

check it out: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-201205

UPDATE: after some internet searching, the vast majority of people are coming out SO hard in support of Laura Grace and its fucking awesome. I have very seldom been more proud of my community than i am right now. I'm a punk and right now really fucking proud of it.

“Be, and it is.” — Qur’an 36:82

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”

—	Rainer Maria Rilke

Turn Tomorrow Into Yesterday

Your Daily dose of Pratchett Wisdoms

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods 

 “He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant 
 

“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods 

 

 “Death: 'Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.'”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

 

  “Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

 

  “Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

Lucid Dreaming!