I have come to realize that I am finally not afraid to just be with myself. I have spent a great deal of time by myself, but the difference now is that I am not by myself, I am with myself. It feels empowering and invigorating. I am not afraid of what is, and what will be. I am slowly coming to terms with all of the emotions that run through my body and mind, and one by one, I will eventually accept each one, and then let go. I feel this strong positive energy radiating through my body, and I want to share it with the world. It is like I have finally reached the summit of a mountain, after years of climbing and struggling. I am here, now, and I am embracing it. This is my life, and I love it.
"Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
"It requires enormous intelligence to be alone, and you must be alone to find truth. It is nice to have a companion, a husband or a wife, and also to have babies; but you see, we get lost in all that, we get lost in the family, in the job, in the dull, monotonous routine of a decaying existence. We get used to it, and then the thought of living alone becomes dreadful, something to be afraid of. Most of us have put all our faith in one thing, all our eggs in one basket, and our lives have no richness apart from our companions, apart from our families and our jobs. But if there is richness in one's life - not the richness of money or knowledge, which anyone can acquire, but that richness which is the movement of reality with no beginning and no ending - then companionship becomes a secondary matter."
- Krishnamurti
The world is mine to embrace, to love, and to explore. This is my life, and I love it.
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