I love that every INFP playlist I've ever listened starts all cute and sweet and progressively gets more and more depressive and fucked up because haha yeah we do be like that
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Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
And if someday the uncertainty of this world becomes too overwhelming, I hope you remember that some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved, they’re meant to be lived.
We do not need to get rid of anger in order to give up hatred.
We do not need to renounce enjoyment in order to give up desire.
We do not need to neglect our safety in order to give up fear.
Cease to indulge the feelings that, while pretending to be necessary, actually destroy the world.
I came across this special folio of poets from Gaza published by peripheries (an annual publication by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions). It was published in 2021 and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Mosab Abu Toha. You can read the seven poets here.
Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life