Ibrahim | इब्राहिम | ابراہیم

The masculine urge to make a new beginning.

Sometimes, exposure to the ailment is part of the treatment.

Values are subjective and highly personal; just following the crowd typically leads to the edge of a cliff. Most people blame everyone and everything but themselves for ending up too close to the hunter's trap to avoid the danger once they finally perceive it ... if they ever do.

Refusal to accept this responsibility is the basis of a huge portion of the unnecessary suffering people inflict upon themselves.

Our self-worth is based on what we IMAGINE others think of us when most of us have no clue how we are actually perceived by others.

Whatever works for you and is in your capacity, make sure you spend time connecting with yourself. Life is too short. Don't let your retirement be the first time you really get to know and spend time with yourself.

Most people tackle this by regularly spending certain periods of time away from the world, just with themselves. Some do it through solitude in their own homes, while for others, it might look like solo traveling, camping, or even taking long walks in the forest on weekends.

We will forever be oscillating between who we actually are and how people perceive us.

Isolation isn’t forever — it’s the quiet before your inner storm of transformation clears. - Toni Campbell

I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. - Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.