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It’s easier said than done but forgiveness is key to accepting someone else’s flawed humanity and in turn recognising and accepting your own. There’s a feeling of serenity that comes with letting go of things that have already happened. We only ever truly have this moment anyway. Why are you here?
Feb 22, 2025
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Living life independent of grudges, while often difficult, is an essential component of spiritual freedom. Forgiving those who have hurt you allows for positive connections to be fully received with an open heart. Forgiving yourself protects you from the burden of toxic shame, and allows you to look forward to the prospect of self-improvement.
Jan 2, 2024
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first things first: u never have to forgive someone if u don’t want to. sometimes there is no reason to not move on from a situation, but that’s still your right. you should take all the time u need to make peace with urself and what happened.
my dad once told me that the worst thing you can do to urself is to wish someone else ill will. giving ur energy and thoughts to a situation or person in a way that doesn’t help you process what happened, but only serves to make u upset, is a disservice to urself and ur time. u deserve to be happy and u deserve peace.
look of it as a way of letting go of the negative thoughts and emotions that that situation causes u. forgiving someone doesn’t necessarily mean ur justifying what they did, but instead respecting ur right to be happy. u can forgive someone and still not continue that relationship with them. seeing forgiveness as a way to allow urself to grow past a situation and not define urself by it, instead of as a mandatory ritual after someone has wronged you, has helped me to move past people and situations that have hurt me and kept me from growing.
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doesn’t have to be for the peace and gratification of the people you forgive; it can be for yourself where you recognize that they’re not part of your life anymore, there’s nothing you can do to change what happened, and you don’t have to let them continue to make you suffer from anger. I love Tara Brach’s guided meditations on this and on letting go.
I think also anger is often a protective emotion that covers deeper more vulnerable emotions like feelings of betrayal, shame, sadness, etc. You might find these hiding under your protective shell if you look for them.
I would recommend to people struggling with anger and resentment to also try doing chakra yoga starting at the root and working your way up because this will address and help to clear up some of those underlying feelings first so that you can process in a more clear way.
And Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on anger is great!
Apr 24, 2024
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Don’t you think that PI FYI is a bit like Wendy Cope’s poem The Orange if it was a social media platform? Everyone sharing and recommending the things that bring them meaning and joy in life. It’s so wholesome.
It’s been a minute but I have some time off this weekend so I will likely indulge some more of my thoughts and recs for the benefit of journaling.
Feb 22, 2025
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.
How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running
until they forget that they are horses.
It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio,
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
we’re inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.
Jul 1, 2024
Nate Amos - one half of the NY art pop duo Water From Your Eyes - is a font of seemingly endless musical invention with something close to 25-30 collections of songs to his name on bandcamp when creating under the guise of This Is Lorelei.
An absolute trove of unbridled imagination and what a delectable treat it all is too.
On This Is Lorelei’s freshest batch, ‘Box For buddy, Box For Star’, a sense of timelessness is epitomised in songs such as ‘Angel’s Eye’, ‘An Extra Beat For You And Me’ with their nods towards a spruced up re-treading of Americana as well as leaning into the psychedelic adventures of The Beatles‘ more whimsical songwriting in ‘A Song That Sings About You’.
That isn’t to say that this is an exercise in nostalgia fuelled plagiarisms for Nate.
These songs are vivid portraits of modern life where no production technique is left unturned with auto-tune affected vocalisations and patched in drum machine featuring heavily in album highlight ’Dancing In The Club’.
These bedroom production left turns thrown in amongst traditional songwriting techniques make for a collection of songs that are imbued with a millennial/Gen Z veneer, therefore marking out ‘Box For Buddy..’ as an album that could only have been released in the year 2024.
There really is something for everyone here.
FFO: Alex G, The Beatles (Revolver era), Elliott Smith.
Out now via Double Double Whammy.
Jun 29, 2024