The Stillhouse Menagerie
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You are protected—
not from pain,
but from losing yourself in it.
Not from endings,
but from forgetting who you are when they come.
Real protection isn’t safety.
It’s self-loyalty.
And you have that now.
Influence is not identity. Influence can be acknowledged without being mistaken for truth.
My pain informed my path—but it’s not the whole of who I am.
Human stability says, “I’m safe because nothing’s changing.”
True stability says, “I’m safe because I won’t abandon myself when it does.”
The goal of healing is not to gain enough control over your external world that nothing bad ever happens again. The goal is to get enough control over your inner world, that when the bad stuff does happen, you have the tools to manage what happens next.
Yes, I’m source.
But right now, I’m a human
who still flinches at goodbyes,
wants to be held,
and gets afraid of losing what I’ve built.
Enlightenment doesn’t erase that—
it makes space for it.
Fear guards the door and prevents you from walking through. Once you understand what the fear has to say, it will let you walk through the door peacefully. You don’t have to fight, just understand and heal.
When somebody hurts you that’s their karma. When you defend yourself, that’s your karma.
We’ve built an identity—an industry—around the idea that suffering is what makes the work real.
If there’s a contradiction, then something isn’t true.
To let go of the idea of should, you have to let go of how the world told you the relationship was supposed to be—and begin to accept how the relationship actually is.
There comes a moment when you’re no longer looking for more information—you’re looking for stillness.
Truth. A quiet place to remember who you are.
You’ve earned every certificate, aced every course, built a resume that shines. Yet you feel stuck, unfulfilled, unhappy. Why? Because fulfillment isn’t on a certificate. It’s within.
You aren’t strong because the world made you that way. You are strong because you were born that way.
When feeling becomes a habit, it stops being guidance. It’s no longer responding to the present, it is simply reminding you of the past.
To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.
It’s messy and exhausting to live in a world that doesn’t really allow human beings to be in the world peacefully.
There’s a difference between choosing to rise above your circumstances to tend your inner life and floating outside of your body so far that you lose touch with the ground beneath your feet. Which one are you choosing?
The Universe will always offer you a choice. You may not like the options, you may not like the circumstances surrounding the choice, but there will always be a choice. Your perception is the only thing that determines how you feel about it.
Strength is a conscious choice you make in the middle of the chaos. Strength is not something bad that happens to you. It’s something you consciously and intentionally do for yourself.
The emotional river is meant to flow. Keep it in it’s banks, don’t disrupt its flow and you will be okay.