“When You Are Present, You Can Allow The Mind To Be As It Is Without Getting Entangled In It. The Mind

““Getting away from it all,” many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.”

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Eckhart Tolle

i was like “oh no! he’s gonna eat these poor pups” but nah

From your experience typing others or observing people type others, which types are the hardest to tell apart from the outside? I ask because I want to know when to be careful and look twice so that I can be more accurate. Thanks.

Common mistyping clusters (and the stereotypes involved):

ESFJ / ESFP / ENFP / ENFJ (romance/relationship oriented)

ISFJ / ISFP / ESFJ / ENFJ (generous, helpful, nice, “mom”)

ISFJ / ESFJ / ISTJ / ESTJ (bureaucratic, bland, conservative)

ISFP / INFP / INFJ (moral, misfit, reserved, emotional issues)

INFP / INFJ / ENFP (idealistic, introspective, writer/poet)

ISFP / INFP / ESFP / ENFP (artist, activist/rebel, “unique”)

ISTJ / ISTP / ISFP / INTP / INTJ (loner, do their own thing)

INTJ / INFJ / INTP (intellectual, socially awkward)

INTP / INTJ / ISTP / ISTJ (expert/scientist, competent, technical)

ENTP / ENTJ / INTJ / INFJ (ambitious, driven, resourceful, cold)

ESTJ / ESFJ / ISTJ / ENFJ (uptight, meddling, critical, “dad”)

ESFP / ENTP / ENFP / INFP (bumbling, no common sense)

ESTP / ESFP / ENFJ / ENTP / ENTJ (outgoing, charismatic)

You’d have to do a more detailed function analysis to get beyond the surface, refer to the Function Theory guide for more info.

Preserved 440-pound blue whale heart.

Via Wired.

JFYI, a blue whale ticker is equivalent in size to a Volkswagen beetle (from Whale Facts).

“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”

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Epiphany

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, ‘Eat in the kitchen,’ Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes, I, Too

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(via scientificphilosopher)

Twilight at St Kilda, Scotland

Also whoever made these should probably be my therapist from now on??

“Start over my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.”

— Madalyn Beck

So I just learned something that pisses me off. Y’know quinoa? The ~magical~ health food that has become so popular in the US that a centuries-long tradition of local, sustainable, multi-crop farming is being uprooted to mass-produce it for the global market? Potentially affecting food stability and definitely effecting environmental stability across the region?

Ok, cool.

Y’know Lamb’s Quarter? A common weed throughout the continental US, tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions including the nutrient-poor and compacted soils common in cities, to the point where it thrives in empty lots? These plants are close relatives, and produce extremely similar seeds. Lamb’s quarter could easily be grown across the US, in people’s backyard and community gardens, as a low-cost and local alternative to quinoa with no sketchy geopolitical impacts. You literally don’t have to nurture it at all, it’s a goddamn weed, it’ll be fine. Put it where your lawn was, it’ll probably grow better than the grass did. AND you can eat the leaves - they taste almost exactly like spinach. 

This just… drives home, again, that a huge part of the appeal of “superfoods” is the sense of the exotic. For whatever nutritional benefits quinoa does have, the marketing strategy is still driven by an undercurrent of orientalism. You too could eat this food, grown laboriously by farmers in the remote Andes mountains! You too could grow strong on the staple crop that has sustained them for centuries! And, y’know, destroy that stable food system in the process. Or you could eat this near-identical plant you found in your backyard.