GOOD VIBEZ ONLY 🥰 : Inspire & Be Inspired!

Kokopantz

Need a boost? Uplift? Just wanna see/ feel something positive? You came to the right forum! Please feel free to drop a word of hope (if the mood strikes you be long winded, it's never too much!) There is someone out there afraid to share but would welcome the inspiration and I'm here to help put those pieces together for them. We are a community, I'd love for us to continue to embrace each other, help those who need it that are desperately fighting alone and truly uplift every single person who comes across this forum. You're never alone as long as we are all here. Sending love to those who need it and those who don't know they do 🥰🙏🏾

Kokopantz

If you are reading this i want YOU to know that you are not alone ♥️

mauvefox

SweetCuddler33

“I don’t think of all the misery, but, of all the beauty that still remains”
Anne Frank

SweetCuddler33

@Kokopantz nice 👍 Thank you for being YOU 🥰

TichantoP

One of my favorite quotes is from artist/animator Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. He says:

“Problems begin the moment we are born. We’re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That’s inevitable. But what can you do? That’s what it is to live.”

It sounded harsh to me at first but now I find it very soothing. It has resonated with me and comforted me many time in life to remember that life is full of decisions and choices and that acceptance is the better path over regret.

Cuddlesofcuddle

"..Don't worry, be happy.."

BellaAine

I'm going to share something that got me through a dark time in my life years ago. I listened to this man’s voice over and over until it genuinely reprogrammed me. Facundo Cabral is a philosopher whose singing and spoken words are incredibly calming. Even though some of his messages include religious references, their wisdom still holds true for people of any faith or none at all. This is just one of his pieces that I’m sharing with you all. This is the translated version. Enjoy.

You’re not depressed, you are distracted
By Facundo Cabral

You are not depressed, you are distracted, distracted by the life that populates you. You have a heart, a mind, soul and spirit, so how can you believe yourself to be poor and miserable? You’re distracted by the life that surrounds you: dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers . . .

Don’t fall into what befell your brother who suffers at being human when there are in the world five billion, six hundred million souls. And it’s not so bad to live alone; in solitude, I do okay deciding in every instant what I want to do, and thanks to solitude, I am learning fundamentals about living.

Don’t fall into what befell your father who believes himself old because he’s seventy, forgetting that Moses led the Exodus at eighty, and Rubinstein interpreted Chopin like no one else at ninety, to cite only two well-known examples.

You are not depressed, you are distracted, and that’s why you feel like you lost something, which is impossible because everything has been given to you. You didn’t make a single hair on your head, therefore you cannot be the owner of anything.

In addition, life doesn’t take things from you; it frees you from things. It alleviates you so that you can fly higher, increase your abundance. From cradle to grave is a school: so, what you call problems are lessons, and life is dynamic.

For this reason, you are in constant movement. For this reason, you should attend only to the now. For this reason, my mother used to say, I only look after the present; the future is God’s issue. For this reason, Jesus said, tomorrow doesn’t interest me. It will bring new experiences, while sufficient to each day are its own admirers.

You haven’t lost anyone; the one who died simply advanced because all of us are headed that way. And the best part of him, the love, remains in your heart. Who can say with certainty that Jesus is dead?

There is no death; there is movement, and on the other side marvelous people await you: Gandhi, Michelangelo, Whitman, Saint Augustine, Mother Teresa, your grandmother and my mother, who believed that poverty is closest to love because money distracts us with too many things and things create distance because they make us suspicious.

You don’t find happiness; that would be too easy. You can only listen to your heart before your head intervenes—the head that is conditioned by memories, that complicates everything with old stuff, orders of the past with prejudices that sicken, that enchain; the head that divides, which is to say, impoverishes; the head that doesn’t accept that life is what it is, not how it ought to be.

Do only what you love, and you will be happy. He who does what he loves is blessedly condemned to success, which will arrive when it’s supposed to arrive. Because what must be, will be. And it will arrive naturally.

Don’t do anything out of obligation or compromise, only for love. Then you will have abundance, and in that abundance everything is possible. Do things without force because the natural forces of life will move you, that’s what lifted me when the plane crashed with my wife and daughter; what kept me alive when the doctors gave me three or four months to live.

God put a human being in charge of you, and that being is you. You alone can make yourself happy and free, only then can you share true life with others. Remember what Jesus said: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” Reconcile with yourself; put yourself in front of the mirror and reflect that the creature you are seeing is a work of God; and decide in that instant to be happy because happiness is an acquisition. There is no need to look outside yourself.

Also, happiness is not a right but an obligation; because if you are not happy, you are embittering everyone who loves you. One single man who lacked the talent and valour to live ordered the execution of six million Jewish brothers.

There are so many things to enjoy and our passage through life is so short, that to suffer is a waste of time. We must enjoy the snow in winter and the flowers in spring, the chocolate of Perugia, the French baguette, Mexican tacos, Chilean wine, the oceans and rivers, Brazilian football,the cigars of Chez Davidoff, A Thousand and One Nights, The Divine Comedy, el Quijote, el Pedro Páramo, the boleros of Manzanero and the poetry of Whitman; Mahler, Brahms, Ravel, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Cezanne, Picasso and Tamay amongst so many marvels.

And if you have cancer or AIDS, two things can happen and they are both good: if it beats you, you’ll be liberated from the body that is such a bother: I’m hungry, I’m cold, I’m tired, I desire, I’m right, I doubt . . . and if you win, you will be humbler, more appreciative, and therefore more easily happy.

Free yourself from the tremendous weight of blame, culpability, and vanity; dispose yourself to live every moment as profoundly as possible.

You aren’t depressed, you’re worried. Help the child who needs you, that child will one day be your son’s associate. Assist the elderly, and the young will aid you when you are old. To be of service is sure happiness, like the love of nature and taking care of what comes to you. Give without half measures, and you will be given fully.

Kokopantz

Wow you guys are AMAZING 🥰🤩 Please keep the love train chugging along cuz WE GOT THIS! @SweetCuddler33 u are so very welcome and appreciated ♥️ I see you as well ♥️

TxTom

trysdet

In a world where you can be anything be kind

Goonie4life

@trysdet add my $30 burger to your tab, sir

Goonie4life

My brain always shuts down when a religious sermon is kicked up 😊🤗

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."

-- Gandhi

trysdet

@Goonie4life Sloth love Chunk!!!!!

BellaAine

@Goonie4life it's not a religious sermon. Facundo Cabral’s message comes from humanist and philosophical ideas, including concepts similar to Stoicism which has existed for centuries. You quoted Gandhi after what we know about him now, because we tend to separate someone’s ideas from their personal life. A person’s beliefs or character do not necessarily determine the value of their ideas, though sometimes it's extremely relevant.

Goonie4life

@BellaAine my opinion wasn't an attack on you. Just how my brain works since leaving a religious cult.

Goonie4life

@trysdet Chunk loves Sloth! Want a Baby Ruth??

BellaAine

@Goonie4life glad you're out! I don’t take these kinds of topics as personal attacks. I’m simply clarifying my perspective.

I also like to debate philosophical ideas with myself(yes I talk to myself a lot) and I may not always agree with everything being said. For example, I don’t believe we should aim to be happy all the time, since suffering is part of human life.

Goonie4life

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."
-- Winnie the Pooh

trysdet

It could be neurodivergence. I am in that group so I recognize certain signs. Of course it's not always the case. I don't find neurodivergence weird at all. I wish everyone understood better

zoeloveshugs

You are beautiful 🤩
Hugs to everyone!
You have purpose!
You are needed! 🌈

@TxTom Love those songs! Those are the 2 songs I would send my best friend to help her feel better when she got really down.

Kokopantz

@trysdet absolutely nothing wrong with or weird about neurodivergence. Factual 😌👍🏽

Kokopantz

Hello my fellow humans :
Today is a new day. Yesterday already happened, nothing more to do with it. Think forward. Love deeply. Care sincerely. And if u can't do anything else simply be kind to someone today, who knows what they've got going on. You could be the reason someone smiled today. What a gift ♥️

Kokopantz

"Keep On Moving" by Soul II Soul
One of my many motivational jams - check it out!

Kokopantz

"Never be someone's gossip when you are poetry ..."

Carry on beautiful human being 🙏🏾✨️❤️

SnuggleChuckle

Kokopantz

If u can't find someone who will hug u hug yourself 🤗

Screenshots I've saved 💜 ✨

mauvefox

@Meowmoon i love those! Especially the weird one. Although I think these days if I attempted a cartwheel I would definitely hurt myself. 😂

@mauvefox Thanks! And bah, that's ok! I could never do a cartwheel. Not my flavor of weird 😊