http://findingmyrecovery.tumblr.com/post/99297684405

I always hear “It’s okay not to be okay” and for a while I needed to hear that, but there was something else I needed to hear but didn’t realize until today. I was struggling with guilt about moving on and leaving the past behind and healing myself.

My therapist said this:

“It’s okay to be okay. It is okay to move on. It is okay to heal. It is okay to be happy. It is okay to be alright. You are not deserting anyone. You are not abandoning the people still in the dark place. You are taking care of yourself and there is NOTHING wrong with that.”

  Internal Acceptance Movement

 

 

  

http://moments--in---time.tumblr.com/post/100210443556

Als je heel wilt worden, 

laat jezelf deel zijn. 

- Tao Teh King -

www.zininrust.nl

http://ignitelight.tumblr.com/post/93369997467

Put your hands in the earth.

Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.

-Thich Nhat Hanh -

http://visibility-is-relative.tumblr.com/post/100105297887/sixpenceee-how-a-caterpillar-climbs-from-the

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed.

It means the damage no longer controls our life.

- Unknown -

http://something-everything-nothing.tumblr.com/post/100061753681

Stop met alles - inclusief jezelf - 

zo serieus te nemen.

Het leven is niet zo ingewikkeld 

als je het hebt gemaakt. 

- Larry Winget -

www.dagelijksegedachte.net

http://the-smiling-wolf.tumblr.com/image/100082653627

You have been stony for too many years. 

 

Try something different. 

 

Surrender. 

 

- Rumi -

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping,

to smile without hostility at people and institutions,

to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters;

to be more faithful in our work,

to show greater patience, 

to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism:

all these are things we can do.

- Hermann Hesse -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/99394979833/str1ke-gerringong-rocks-on-flickr

De natuur wordt alleen overwonnen

 

 door haar te gehoorzamen.

 

 - Francis Bacon -

http://something-everything-nothing.tumblr.com/post/99403244501/cerebrospinalien-the-rebel-by-iamnotanumber8885

Ik ren en ik denk

Ik stop verbaasd 

Waarom liep ik nou te rennen

Ik heb helemaal geen haast 

- Loesje - 

http://www.loesje.nl/

Dit zal ook passeren. 

  Het is pijnlijk voor het moment

maar dit moment duurt niet eeuwig. 

 

 

 

http://laviesepoursuit.tumblr.com/post/96733423808

Je volgende gedachte is maar zo sterk 

als de aandacht die je er aan schenkt.

 

Ze is maar zo belangrijk

 als jij er belang aan hecht.

 

 - Vrij naar Mooji -

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

 

http://flowgently.tumblr.com/post/94084958194

We all have two lives. 

The second one begins 

when you realize you only have one.

 

- Confucius -

http://the-smiling-wolf.tumblr.com/image/99908259432

Vergelijk je jezelf wel eens met anderen?

Dat betekent dat je gelooft in een bepaald beeld van jezelf,

en dat je je eigenwaarde aan dat denkbeeld ontleent.

Maar zolang je jezelf ziet als een denkbeeld,

zie je niet wie je werkelijk bent.

- Nin Sheng -

 

 

 

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/99789850818

We imagine that we desire an object, 

a substance, a state, an activity, an experience, a person,

 a ‘destination’.

Really what we desire is that feeling of rest 

when we get there.

What we desire is relief from desire itself. 

We seek the end of seeking, 

 long for the end of longing, 

wait for the end of waiting.” 

 

- Jeff Foster -

www.examiner.com

Als je gedachten je aandacht

al te zeer in beslag nemen,

dan neem je ze misschien te serieus.

 

- Nin Sheng -

 

 

 

http://flowgently.tumblr.com/post/99811803924/jizo-statue-at-sanzen-in-temple-kyoto-japan#notes

Love always unites,

fear always separates. 

- Michael Kewley -

http://tellmeyoufeelthisfire.tumblr.com/post/32101169732

Angst 

maakt de wolf 

groter dan hij is.

 

- Brad Meltzer-

 

 

 

http://the-smiling-wolf.tumblr.com/post/99788987772/manditoe-largecoin-cant-beleive-this-is-a

I bear the wounds

of all the battles I avoided.

- Fernando Pessora -

http://something-everything-nothing.tumblr.com/post/99711673781/maya47000-in-my-footsteps-by-coopertew

Too many people die

waiting on life to happen.

- William Chapman -

http://williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com/

http://superbnature.tumblr.com/post/99751609425

It is important, as we get older, to learn how to grieve. Although this may sound self-evident, experience has taught me that it is not. In a culture that emphasizes stoicism and forward movement, in which time is deemed “of the essence,” and there is little toleration for slowness, inwardness, and melancholy, grieving – a healthy, necessary aspect of life – is too often overlooked. As we get older, of course, and losses mount, the need for conscious grieving becomes more pronounced.

- Ram Dass -