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The only thing I know is that my generation is a very dissillusioned one, and that most young people are involved in some kind of creative self-actualization. People have time to worry too much about themselves. It’s one downside of a stable society.

—Amanda Bergman (via baleine)

thesleepover:

all morning long.

Pray to god to be free of God, this thing outside our consciousness 

“The more he loved me, the more I loved the world” excess energy We tend to think of as closing out the world and we can only see the face of the beloved adn that everything else goes quiet or numb but actually what I experienced was that the love demanded to be something else, it demanded to be expressed beyond the expression of the participants.  That excess energy, I think, is God—God in us trying to return to its source.. 

Taking on religious practices does not mean you subscribe to every aspect of the religion (ie taking spiritual experiences and expressing them through religious acts) what you are saying is, I have had these incredible experiences in my life of suffering or joy and they have demanded some action of me. 

Faith is an orientation of your life that is objectless, which has helped explain why I do need some structures in my life—I need to go to church, specifically religious elements in my life. I find that if i turn all of my spiritual impulses—if I let them be solitary as I am comfortable being—i am comfortable reading a book or trying to pray and meditating—inevitably if that energy is not focused outward it becomes DESPAIRING, it turns in on itself and in a couple of months I find I am in despair. One way we know that our spiritual inclinations are valid is that they lead us out of ourselves.

I can’t make you love me, if you don’t

I found love in the nick of time darling