Honestly shoutout to all the ppl who are trying hard to be more positive and make meaningful changes in their lives and work towards recovery because this shits hard and people definitely don’t say it enough, but focusing on recovery is very difficult and the progress you make is so valuable, just by choosing to work towards bettering yourself you have already come so far and that’s something to be really proud of
Whatever your spiritual practice, religion, or craft — emotions will come and emotions will go. “Faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean,” writes Flannery O’Connor.
You will not always feel energized by rituals or in love with your work, you will not always get that buzz or tingle you first had. Sometimes you will wander in light, and other times in darkness — but the stars are still there even when you can’t see them.
It is ok just to “go through the motions”, to light your candles, recite your prayers, leave water on your altars. It is ok not to feel anything.
An old definition of magic is “an act or assertion of the will” — and the same is true for faith. Keep steadfast and persevere even when you feel nothing; we’re not doing this for an emotional high, but for wholeness.
How much rewarding it is to keep going even when you feel nothing at all.
This is the hard discipline of every spiritual craft.
Remember that the emptiness and the dryness will not last forever.
Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.
I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.
“There was a blind spot in the security camera and only one cashier on duty, they were asking to be robbed, what did they expect?”
Here’s the petition to make Aloha Poke Co. remove the Aloha from their name since they caused so much financial problems for small businesses by threatening legal action if they don’t rebrand “Aloha Poke”
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