Eckhart Tolle
"Very early in my life it was too late."
Marguerite Duras, from The Lover
"Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don’t react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before."
Rajneesh
"You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right."
"Maybe the problem with love these days is that someone says they love you, and you just wonder how long for."
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"Maybe the problem with love these days is that someone says they love you, and you just wonder how long for."
J.L. Johnson
"Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind."
Elana Dykewomon, “Notes for a Magazine,” Sinister Wisdom #36 (Winter 1988/89).
"Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people."
"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them."
Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
"Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation."
Rajneesh
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what."
"What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
Eckhart Tolle
"If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree."
"Wherever you are, be all there."
"when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. let it manifest itself, the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer from having been loved this authentically. souls come into, return, open, and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons, let them be who and what they are meant."
"If you’re not excited about it, it’s not the right path."
Abraham Hicks
"We are all God trying not to be God."
Dr. David Frawley, Ultimate Mysteries of Reality
"You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself.
We are horrible."
We are horrible."
Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “The Perjured City,”
"I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I’d live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs, because that’s the price I’m willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life."
"Past and future are in the mind only - I am now."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
"You knocked me over: but darling; we are, all of us, learning how to become whole in a broken society aren’t we? So…why would I waste such precious time condemning you for stumbling over a rock, right next to the one I just stumbled over? You know what revolution is to me? Giving the same grace to others that we need from others. All else is vanity. Anything less is fear."
Té V. Smith, You Gon’ Just Let Me Off The Hook Like That?
"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."
Carrie Fisher on pursuing dreams despite mental illness [X]
"How did I meet Mick? You know, I always find that an offensive question. When you’re intelligent and pretty, you can meet anyone you want to."
Bianca Jagger
"هزار بار ديگرم سر شكوفه كردن است
I have yet to bloom a thousand times more…
"
– Qahar Aasi
I have yet to bloom a thousand times more…
"
– Qahar Aasi
"You must master a new way to think before you can master a new way to be"
unknown
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"You attract what you are ready for."
"When you are young, you believe there’ll be many people you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times."
Before Sunset (2004), Dir. Richard Linklater
"Live the life you’d be envious of if you saw someone else living it. This is my personal mantra. Whenever I’m going through a difficult time, like a breakup, and I’m wishing to be the person who could get over it and move on, I tell myself to be that person. Instead of waiting to be inspired by someone else and being jealous that they’re living a life I wish I had, I tell myself not to wait for that moment and to start being the person I want to be."
"There’s more to be in love with than just other people"
Don’t forget you can love yourself and everything the world has to offer: Nicholas A Browne
"There are certain people who diminish those around them. Her gift was to enhance you. She made you more than you had ever dreamed of being."
Barbara Kraft, referring to Anaïs Nin, from Anaïs Nin: The Last Days
"I am both worse and better than you thought."
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
"Of late, she had felt that coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong."
Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
"Anything we do not reinforce will lose its strength. It is a principle of conditioning. If we do not think, speak, or initiate action around something, the force of that thing will eventually wither."
Mindful Eating, Jan Chozen Bays, 115.
"I’m afraid of
a lot of things,
but mostly,
most sincerely,
I am afraid of
being completely
unraveled by you,
and you finding nothing
you want in here."
a lot of things,
but mostly,
most sincerely,
I am afraid of
being completely
unraveled by you,
and you finding nothing
you want in here."
L.M. Dorsey, She Is Made of Chalk
"My favorite means of communication is otherworldly: dreams—meeting in dreams."
Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in “A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva”.
"Bloom beautifully,
dangerously,
loudly,
bloom softly.
However you need,
just bloom"
dangerously,
loudly,
bloom softly.
However you need,
just bloom"
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
"For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love."
Geneen Roth
"Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really."
Harvey Milk
"A soft woman
is simply a wolf
caught in meditation."
is simply a wolf
caught in meditation."
Pavana पवन
"Life is a dance of energy."
Alan Watts
"The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices."
"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same."
Don Miguel Angel Ruiz
"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same."
"At school my name sounds funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver…"
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
"To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle."
"An Artist Date is a block of time, perhaps two hours weekly, especially set aside and commited to nurturing your creative consciousness, your inner artist. You do not take anyone on this Artist Date but you and your inner artist, a.k.a. your creative child."
January 5, Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way - Every Day)
"Always be open-minded, curious, forward-thinking and then suspicious."
Helmut Lang
"I have a constant longing to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful."
Franz Kafka, from The Penal Colony: Stories; “Conversation With The Supplicant,”
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
"This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors."
"When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving."
Kim McMilllen
"What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for, and to do it so unconsciously."
Haruki Murakami
"…and I’m disgusted with dreams now — I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and to talk to — Music that makes holes in the sky —"
Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Anita Pollitzer, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony."
Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
"You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust."
Ask Polly: Why Should I Keep Going? by Heather Havrilesky
"The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters."
Ramana Maharshi
"Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them."
Adyashanti
"I am troubled and harsh and hopeless. Though I have love inside me. But I don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it scratches like barbs."
Clarice Lispector, tr. by Elizabeth Lowe, from Água Viva / The Stream of Life
"I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home."
Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
"Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again."
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"What are you to me — I can not say it even to myself — I don’t know how —"
"What are you to me — I can not say it even to myself — I don’t know how —"
Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
"Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
"People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you."
Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “The Perjured City,”
"The closer I get, the more I see how far I am."
Rumi
"You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are."
"You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank."
Pablo Neruda
"I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them."
Pablo Neruda
"I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them."
Susan E. Isaacs.
"If you love and are loved, whatever you do affects others."
"Each step is blood, is risk:
is prayer
"
is prayer
"
Mohja Kahf, from ‘The First Thing’
"She was a taker. You need a giver."
"You have to pull yourself together in order to fall apart. I move in extremes. I need a quiet place to process it all and write. I’m one of those people that get really affected by other people’s energy. Honestly, I can be a bit of a wild animal when someone fucks with me - I don’t take it well, but I also don’t want to be known as someone not able to control my rage, so instead I withdraw."
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Dir. Richard Yates
"You have to pull yourself together in order to fall apart. I move in extremes. I need a quiet place to process it all and write. I’m one of those people that get really affected by other people’s energy. Honestly, I can be a bit of a wild animal when someone fucks with me - I don’t take it well, but I also don’t want to be known as someone not able to control my rage, so instead I withdraw."
Chelsea Wolfe, from an interview conducted c. February 2017
"I feel strong and wicked. It is my descent into hell."
"I feel strong and wicked. It is my descent into hell."
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of
Anaïs Nin (1914 - 1920)
Anaïs Nin (1914 - 1920)
"I don’t care if I fall in love to a devil, as long as that devil will love me the way he loves hell."
Unknown.
"Waiting is erotic."
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
"I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me."
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract."
James Allen.
"I have to stop falling in love with memories"
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
Rumi
"We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus."
Philip Wollen
"Some experiences just need to be left in peace, they’re fragile as a cobweb and cannot tolerate either thoughts or words. You just have to be satisfied with letting them flicker in a corner of your awareness now and then."
Majgull Axelsson, from April Witch
"I find her quite terrifying — and the nicer she’s being, the more quietly terrifying she becomes."
Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre c. December 1945 featured in Letters to Sartre
"No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized."
Adyashanti
"… I’d like to take a moment
to submit a formal apology to my soft parts
because they kept me warm
when I was trying to freeze to death,
and I hated them for it."
to submit a formal apology to my soft parts
because they kept me warm
when I was trying to freeze to death,
and I hated them for it."
Ashe Vernon, from “Snapshots”
"Whatever it is, stop trying to figure it out now. Let it remain unresolved a little while. Stop trying to fast-forward to the ‘answer’ scene in the movie of your life; trust the present scene of ‘no answer yet’. Allow the question itself space to breathe and be fertilized. Relax into the mysterious ground of Now."
Jeff Foster
"At your best you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person."
unknown
go find that right person
"Let what you are doing be your whole experience."
go find that right person
"Let what you are doing be your whole experience."
SilentGong
"I and me are always too deeply in conversation."
"We punish ourselves so much in our own imaginations. We convince ourselves everything we do, everything we think, is wrong.
For eighteen years I’ve believed what other people told me about what was right and what was wrong. From now. I’m deciding."
For eighteen years I’ve believed what other people told me about what was right and what was wrong. From now. I’m deciding."
Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves
"I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."
Albert Camus, The Stranger
"Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?"
Margaret Atwood, from “Bodily Harm,”
"Your greatest need is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters your mind. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life, work on controlling your mind. In most cases, that’s the only thing you should be trying to control."
"The only way out is through."
Robert Frost
"Speak nectar when you can, and fire when you must."
Xan Oku @eearth
"If you know yourself, you’ll not be harmed by what is said about you."
"I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I’ll always have to wonder whether I’m truly wanted or whether I’ve just been settled for."
"Thе рroblеm is no longеr gеtting реoрlе to еxрrеss thеmsеlvеs, but рroviding littlе gарs of solitudе аnd silеnсе in whiсh thеy might еvеntuаlly find somеthing to sаy. Rерrеssivе forсеs don’t stoр реoрlе from еxрrеssing thеmsеlvеs, but rаthеr, forсе thеm to еxрrеss thеmsеlvеs. Whаt а rеliеf to hаvе nothing to sаy, thе right to sаy nothing, bесаusе only thеn is thеrе а сhаnсе of frаming thе rаrе, or еvеr rаrеr, thе thing thаt might bе worth sаying."
Gilles Deleuze, Mediators
"There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away."
"All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire."
"I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love."
"I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again."
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
"She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned. She had plenty of evidence that she had a good life. She just couldn’t feel the life she had. It was as though she had cancer of the perspective."
Carrie Fisher, Postcards From the Edge
"Marilyn Monroe said, “If they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.” All idealisation is punishing and sadistic."
JACQUELINE ROSE
"a kiss like
cherries and dirt: as sublime, as corrosively
filthy."
cherries and dirt: as sublime, as corrosively
filthy."
"I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out."
Bill Hicks
"A squeeze of the hand—enormous documentation—a tiny gesture within the palm, a knee which doesn’t move away, an arm extended, as if quite naturally, along the back of a sofa and against which the other’s head gradually comes to rest—this is the paradisiac realm of subtle and clandestine signs: a kind of festival not of the senses but of meaning."
Roland Barthes, “Contacts” in A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better."
Frida Kahlo.
"When I was 21 I read “Anna Karenina.” I thought Anna and Vronsky were soul mates. They were deeply in love and therefore had to be together. I found Karenin cruel and oppressive for keeping his wife from her destiny. Levin and Kitty and the peasants bored me. I read those parts quickly.
Last year I turned 49, and I read the book again. This time, I loved Levin and Kitty. I loved the fact that after she declined his proposal he waited for a long time to mend his hurt feelings and then asked her again. I loved that she had grown up in the interim and now felt grateful for a second chance. Anna and Vronsky bored me. I thought Anna was selfish and shrill. My heart went out to poor Karenin, who tried to be decent.
What has literature taught me about love? Literature (along with experience) has taught me that love means different things at different points in our lives, and that often as we get older we gravitate toward the quieter, kinder plotlines, and find them to be richer than we had originally understood them to be.
"
Last year I turned 49, and I read the book again. This time, I loved Levin and Kitty. I loved the fact that after she declined his proposal he waited for a long time to mend his hurt feelings and then asked her again. I loved that she had grown up in the interim and now felt grateful for a second chance. Anna and Vronsky bored me. I thought Anna was selfish and shrill. My heart went out to poor Karenin, who tried to be decent.
What has literature taught me about love? Literature (along with experience) has taught me that love means different things at different points in our lives, and that often as we get older we gravitate toward the quieter, kinder plotlines, and find them to be richer than we had originally understood them to be.
"
Ann Patchett, “A Sentimental Education - Writers on Love”
"I’ve reinvented myself once. And I can do it again."
Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York
"She was stronger alone."
Jane Austen
"I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall — like seeking love in a whorehouse."
Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius.
"Explanation is a Well-Dressed Error"
Julio Cortazar.
"Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing."
Lao Tzu
"Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again."
Ursula, Kiki’s Delivery Service
"Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Avoid too much noise. Protect your time. Feed your inner life."
Jane Kenyon, from A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, The Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem
"Countless biographies by women reveal that girl children witnessing a mother’s suffering at the hands of male tyrants – fathers, brothers, and/or husbands – are deeply, traumatically affected. Not only do we want to rescue our mothers but also we want to change our destiny so we will never suffer the way they did or do."
"You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature."
"Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy."
Communion: The Female Search for Love, bell hooks
"You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
"That was her.
PURE, LUCID, EVIL.
I’d sleep all right with that on top of me.
"
PURE, LUCID, EVIL.
I’d sleep all right with that on top of me.
"
Bertolt Brecht, from Poems 1913 - 1956
"May you take time
to celebrate the quiet miracles
that seek no attention."
to celebrate the quiet miracles
that seek no attention."
John O'Donohue
"The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you—"
Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West
"Don’t wait for it…Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you."
"I am a lot of things. And not one of them defines me."
Timber Hawkeye
"If you’re asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you’re asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes."
"Every disconnection is death."
Anaïs Nin, from Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939
And rebirth
"I believe really too much, I’m easily seduced, touched, I really believe and that is why I fall into abysms of doubt…I want always to know absolutely. I am not sure except of what I feel."
And rebirth
"I believe really too much, I’m easily seduced, touched, I really believe and that is why I fall into abysms of doubt…I want always to know absolutely. I am not sure except of what I feel."
"One day I woke up
and we no longer spoke
the same language.
I haven’t heard from you since."
and we no longer spoke
the same language.
I haven’t heard from you since."
Where did you go?, Hishaam Siddiqi
"The longing to touch/be touched. I feel gratitude when I touch someone—as well as affection etc. The person has allowed me proof that I have a body—and that there are bodies in the world."
Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980
"Habitually contemplate whether your thoughts stem from a place of love or from fear. If your thoughts originate in love, follow them. But if they originate from a place of fear, then dig deep to find the root of your fear. Only then will you be able to finally let go of it so that fear no longer limits your possibilities."
Timber Hawkeye
"Enlightenment is the quiet acceptance of what is."
Wayne Dyer
"76% of negative feedback given to women included personality criticism. For men, 2%. The study speaks to the impossible tightrope women must walk to do their jobs competently and to make tough decisions while simultaneously coming across as nice to everyone, all the time."
"I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t want to struggle to make things clear."
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955
"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."
"When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are."
Ram Dass
"But as Latinos become an increasingly large part of a non-white majority in the United States, we must remain vigilant about anti-blackness in our families, communities and movements, or risk a future of our own making in which black lives are treated as though they do not matter. While George Zimmerman’s vile vigilantism is an aberration, we need to admit that people like him, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not total anomalies; we need to admit that they are like some of our own family members who murmur slurs, lock car doors and cross streets to avoid black people"
"There’s only one thing that’s better than getting what you want: it’s to know that you can be happy whether you get it or not."
Adyashanti
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