The Ways of the Soul

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on Monday

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot [Famous 19th c. woman author]
Art: Andrea Kowch

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Sunday

You start dying slowly
when you kill your self-esteem,
when you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly
if you become a slave of your habits,
walking every day on the same paths,
if you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly
if you avoid feeling passion
and its turbulent emotions,
those which make your eyes glisten
and your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly
if you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain
if you do not go after a dream
if you do not allow yourself
at least once in your lifetime
to run away from sensible advice.
Don't let yourself die slowly . . .

Pablo Neruda
Sculpture by Lene Kilda

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Saturday

Healing isn't magical - it's messy, and confusing, and complicated. One day you will wake up full of hope, and the next day, you will feel that you are at your lowest point. Sometimes, you will see how bright a day is, but then after it, you will catch yourself in the midst of emptiness.
Why? Because healing doesn't necessarily mean escaping from the bad happenstances, it isn't a total way out from worse case scenarios. It's about accepting everything that will come your way - the good and bad, the best and worst, the happy and sad. It's how you face the gloomiest nights way better than before. It's learning how not to rub salt in the wound you still have, and not to make yourself suffer more.
It's embracing that life won't always throw you flowers and sunshines - sometimes it is rocks and hailstorms. But while you have a share of its worst parts, know that you have a share of its best of times, too.

Ren Ednalig
Art: Beatriz Martin Vida

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Friday

In a world where many people are pretending to be cool with each other, it's okay to step away from those you don't vibe with. You don't have to dislike someone to realize they're not your people. Keep love in your heart, but reserve your energy for the people you genuinely align with.

Vex King
Art: Romany Soup

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 26, 2026 at 4:24pm

And in this life we will be constantly pulled between love and loss, grief and gratitude, pain and purpose. But how brave it is to allow yourself space for the tension, to know that seemingly opposite things can all be true at once, and to hold them all in your hand at once, in your heart at once.

Liz Newman
Art: Joma Sipe

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 25, 2026 at 5:05pm

Learn to deal with people for who they are, not who you want them to be. Life gets a lot easier when you stop expecting apple juice from oranges.

Rigel J. Dawson

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 25, 2026 at 6:05am

Thank you so much for joining the group, Alex! 

Comment by Alex - Rosas†Negras on July 24, 2026 at 8:21pm

Thank you very much for the invitation.

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 22, 2026 at 2:59pm

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

"Touched By An Angel" by Maya Angelou
Art: Gestandene

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 22, 2026 at 2:35pm

It's not all in your head. It's all in your heart. It's all in your feet. It's all in your shoulders. It's all in your breath. It's all in your body. Anything unattended to, unresolved, unhealed and unprocessed lives in your tissues, your cells, your musculature. It may be manifest in your anxious thinking, but it doesn't begin there. The mind does not source it - the body does. The trick is not to try to shift the thinking from the mind itself. You can't. You may be able to subdue it there, but you won't be able to resolve it. Because the troubling thoughts are merely a symptom of the deeper issues. They are a reflection of our emotional holdings and constricted musculature. They emanate from the fleshy tunnels that we dug in order to survive this world.

Jeff Brown
Art: Gestandene

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