GOOD VIBEZ ONLY šŸ„° : Inspire & Be Inspired!

KokopantzKokopantz
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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 šŸ„°šŸ™šŸ¾

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  • KokopantzKokopantz

    If you are reading this i want YOU to know that you are not alone ā™„ļø

  • mauvefoxmauvefox

  • SweetCuddler33SweetCuddler33

    ā€œI donā€™t think of all the misery, but, of all the beauty that still remainsā€
    Anne Frank

  • SweetCuddler33SweetCuddler33

    @Kokopantz nice šŸ‘ Thank you for being YOU šŸ„°

  • TichantoPTichantoP
    edited May 27

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

    ā€œProblems begin the moment we are born. Weā€™re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. Thatā€™s inevitable. But what can you do? Thatā€™s what it is to live.ā€

    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.

  • CuddlesofcuddleCuddlesofcuddle

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

  • BellaAineBellaAine
    edited May 27

    I'm going to share something that got me through a dark time in my life years ago. I listened to this manā€™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 Iā€™m sharing with you all. This is the translated version. Enjoy.

    Youā€™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? Youā€™re distracted by the life that surrounds you: dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers . . .

    Donā€™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 itā€™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.

    Donā€™t fall into what befell your father who believes himself old because heā€™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 thatā€™s why you feel like you lost something, which is impossible because everything has been given to you. You didnā€™t make a single hair on your head, therefore you cannot be the owner of anything.

    In addition, life doesnā€™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 Godā€™s issue. For this reason, Jesus said, tomorrow doesnā€™t interest me. It will bring new experiences, while sufficient to each day are its own admirers.

    You havenā€™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 donā€™t find happiness; that would be too easy. You can only listen to your heart before your head intervenesā€”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 doesnā€™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 itā€™s supposed to arrive. Because what must be, will be. And it will arrive naturally.

    Donā€™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, thatā€™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: ā€œLove your neighbour as yourself.ā€ 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 PƔramo, 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, youā€™ll be liberated from the body that is such a bother: Iā€™m hungry, Iā€™m cold, Iā€™m tired, I desire, Iā€™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 arenā€™t depressed, youā€™re worried. Help the child who needs you, that child will one day be your sonā€™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.

  • KokopantzKokopantz

    Wow you guys are AMAZING šŸ„°šŸ¤© Please keep the love train chugging along cuz WE GOT THIS! @SweetCuddler33 u are so very welcome and appreciated ā™„ļø I see you as well ā™„ļø

  • TxTomTxTom

  • trysdettrysdet

    In a world where you can be anything be kind

  • Goonie4lifeGoonie4life

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

  • Goonie4lifeGoonie4life

    My brain always shuts down when a religious sermon is kicked up šŸ˜ŠšŸ¤—

    "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

  • trysdettrysdet

    @Goonie4life Sloth love Chunk!!!!!

  • BellaAineBellaAine

    @Goonie4life it's not a religious sermon. Facundo Cabralā€™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 someoneā€™s ideas from their personal life. A personā€™s beliefs or character do not necessarily determine the value of their ideas, though sometimes it's extremely relevant.

  • Goonie4lifeGoonie4life

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

  • Goonie4lifeGoonie4life

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

  • BellaAineBellaAine
    edited May 28

    @Goonie4life glad you're out! I donā€™t take these kinds of topics as personal attacks. Iā€™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 donā€™t believe we should aim to be happy all the time, since suffering is part of human life.

  • Goonie4lifeGoonie4life

    "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

  • trysdettrysdet

    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

  • zoeloveshugszoeloveshugs

    You are beautiful šŸ¤©
    Hugs to everyone!
    You have purpose!
    You are needed! šŸŒˆ

  • [Deleted User]Meowmoon (deleted user)

    @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.

  • KokopantzKokopantz

    @trysdet absolutely nothing wrong with or weird about neurodivergence. Factual šŸ˜ŒšŸ‘šŸ½

  • KokopantzKokopantz

    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 ā™„ļø

  • KokopantzKokopantz

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

  • KokopantzKokopantz

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

    Carry on beautiful human being šŸ™šŸ¾āœØļøā¤ļø

  • SnuggleChuckleSnuggleChuckle

  • KokopantzKokopantz

    If u can't find someone who will hug u hug yourself šŸ¤—

  • [Deleted User]Meowmoon (deleted user)

    Screenshots I've saved šŸ’œ āœØ


  • mauvefoxmauvefox

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

  • [Deleted User]Meowmoon (deleted user)

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

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