laughing is the best medicine.

Truth.

currently missing this one  :/   

(come back)  <3

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Please Call Me by My True Names

Don't say that i will depart tomorrow-even today i am arriving.

Look deeply: every second i am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope.

The rythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river.

And I am the bird that swoops down on the mayfly.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.

And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old-girl, refugee in a small boat,  who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate.

And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.

My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.

My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,

so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open, the door of compassion.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday life

"can we look at each other and recognize ourselves in the other?"

-'all aspects of our world and all factors of our lives subsist, in a dynamic

web of interdependence. But those currents of relationships are not visible.