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There is a kind of thirst that has nothing to do with water—
and everything to do with being touched by life again.

Not the performative kind.
Not the “be desirable” kind.
Not the hustle, flirt, fix, or feed-the-algorithm kind.

I’m talking about the deeper thirst.
The one that lives in the hips when you’ve been still too long.
The one that hums in the chest when your breath has gone shallow.
The one that whispers please without forming words.
It’s about aliveness.

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So many of us were taught to distrust our thirst.
To spiritualize past it.
To moralize it.
To numb it with productivity, discipline, or devotion that forgot the body entirely.

But thirst is not a flaw.
It is a signal.

The body does not crave without wisdom.
It remembers what it needs.

Sometimes what it’s asking for is literal water—
a glass held with both hands, sipped slowly, gratefully.

Sometimes it’s rest.
Sometimes it’s heat.
Sometimes it’s movement that feels a little dangerous in the best way.

And sometimes—
it’s permission.

Permission to feel good without earning it.
Permission to soften without collapsing.
Permission to want without apologizing.

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There is something holy about desire when it’s listened to instead of hijacked.

When we stop forcing thirst into shame or spectacle,
it becomes a guide.

It leads us back into the body
like a river finding its way home.

So today, on this Thirsty Thursday,

I’m asking you to listen.

Where does your body feel dry?
Where does it ache for warmth, movement, sound, touch, or truth?

And what would it look like
to answer that need gently
instead of overriding it again?

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🔔 Invitation

Beloved seeker, today let thirst be sacred information—not a problem to solve. Pour yourself something nourishing, stretch in a way that feels delicious, breathe where you usually brace. Let the body speak before the mind interrupts.

With devotion and wonder,
The Inspired Imaginative | The Devoted Mystic

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