The Self - Tumblr Posts
“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel that everything is going wrong and you’re about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you’re wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.”
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”
Quotes by Carlos Castaneda
So is self-love just accepting and loving who you were in the past? Or do I have to some how figure out how to love the unobservable present self?
Can you even observe something that is constantly changing so much?
TRYING TO SOLVE MY IDENTITY LIKE A HOMICIDE, TO FIND THE MURDERER IN THE MIRROR; ON IDENTITY
portrait of fryderyk in shifting light, richard siken // @/angelcommunist // Edward hopper interior, model reading (1925) // joan didion on self-respect (via @/girlfictions) // james tate selected poems (via @/heartshop) //arturo ferrari, in the old street, vicolo san bernardino alle ossa a milano // fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet: the complete edition // memento mori by welder wings // How we Fight for our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019) // The Prisoner, Emily Brontë // Evening - Maurice Pirenne // Emily Dickinson, letter 182 // Donte Collins, Grief, Again // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness // Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) // Everything Everything, Nicola Yoon
my first web weave :>
(Un)ethereal, (un)real, godly-like, My true form longs to reveal itself— Unraveled, untouched, full of candy bars. In the water, I can breathe, feeling no ill, (Un)choked, yet certainly provoked. I am not the body; I am not the mind.
For I am nothing and all at once— I’m the one who could be earth and fire, Day and night, salt and vinegar, Sweetness overlord, down in the corridor. Hide my absolute nature; for now, I don’t want it to show.
What if they use it against me? Could I be more than flesh and bone? I’ll go back to the underworld, Until they are all gone.