Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell

[Orema]

Donald Trump would probably have been a blowhard and a bully whatever his social station. But his billions have insulated him from the external checks that limit most people’s ability to act out their narcissistic tendencies; nobody has ever been in a position to tell him, “You’re fired!” And the result is the face you keep seeing on your TV.
—Paul Krugman, in today's NY Times Opionion Page, on Privilege, Pathology, and Power. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/opinion/privilege-pathology-and-power.html?mabReward=A7&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Music&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article)

[BullDog]

I hope you find someone who is brave enough to enter your storm, and respects you enough to love the size of your waves. I hope you find someone who will relish the calm you can have, and who is eager to set sail on the expanse of your mind. I hope you find someone that can't escape the love they have for you, because now they have you in their very blood, always reminding them that you are the only sea worth exploring.

T.B. LaBerge

[Angeltoes]

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[Genesis]

Love is cure...
Love is power...
Love is the magic of changes...
Love is the mirror of divine beauty...

-Rumi

[homoe]

“Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.”

Ann Landers

[Fancy]

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

~ Bell Hooks

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[Genesis]

I.
O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
II.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
III.
I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
IV.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
V.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
VI.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
VII.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”
VIII.
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
IX.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d
On the cold hill’s side.
X.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!”
XI.
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
XII.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing...

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

In the chaotic rubble she still remembered who she was. —R.M. Drake

[Genesis]

"In order to really grow inside, you must first be challenged from all directions.
Things cannot just go your way. You cannot command life or expect it to fulfill your projections.
If things are always easy, you go to sleep inside your being.
As you become more sensitive, more alert, more intuitive, open and silent, fear, resistance and lethargy subside and are replaced with a deep calm and a faith in the unseen one.
Though no outer company may be seen alongside you, the one who walks with God is never alone. The hosts of the heavens walk with them.

Welcome on the road of true life." ~ Mooji

[Genesis]

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[Lecheloco]

“It is better to experience moment of discomfort in the achievement of your dreams than to be comfortable without accomplishing your dreams.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[Lecheloco]

“I’m not like he is, you know,” he tells me, but that isn’t the part that stirs my cold, dead heart. It’s the words he follows it up with a second later, as though it barely takes him anything to let them out: “So if you want to run, run. I won’t sit on the side-lines and wait for you to slip away, like you never existed.” He pauses, thickly. Takes a second, in a way I can understand. “I’ll fight for you, El. I’ll always fight for you.”
― Charlotte Stein, Power Play

[Genesis]

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls...
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

~ Khalil Gibran

[Genesis]

I want to sing like the birds sing,
Not worrying about who hears or what they think.

~ Rumi

[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[catlady]

"The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume."- Fumiko Enchi, Masks

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do --but who is that 'we'? --and nothing 'they' can do either --and who are 'they' --then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic."

-Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

[Orema]

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. —Sidney Poitier

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Orema]

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[Fancy]

"I want hugs and alcohol..."

- My BFF in a text this morn. I agree. :)

[Lecheloco]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Genesis]

She walks on earth with gentle feet,
And speaks with spirited tongue.
The wisdom of her Soul runs deep,
Her song, it must be sung.

A heart that hears the call of old,
Her spirit wild and free.
She listens as the Ancestors cry
Be bold, Light the way for
All to See...

~ Julie Parker

[Genesis]

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is rapture in the lonely shore,
there is society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

- Lord Byron

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

[Genesis]

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd
- The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible;
nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been;
regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.
All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”

- Fernando Pessoa

[Genesis]

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter;
for there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the stars, you have the right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labours and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

- Attributed to Max Ehrmann, 1927

[Genesis]

“Never let the future disturb you.
You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[Genesis]

"It’s the hard things that break;
soft things don’t break.
It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very,
very long to see it!
You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break;
but it’s the soft things that can’t break!
The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!”

- C. JoyBell C

[Fancy]

“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”

― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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[Genesis]

“May the four winds gather and disperse the strength to grant me
with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.”

- Truth Devour, Unrequited

[Genesis]

"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality.
It is a state of mind.
If your mind is at peace, you are happy.
If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy.
If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power -
but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."

- Dada Vaswani

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[Genesis]

Sit with lovers and choose their state.
Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

~ Rumi

[Orema]

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[deathbypoem]

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[Genesis]

I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear of
falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

- Dawna Markova

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[Jesse]

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. - Alfred Newman

[Lecheloco]

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[angelface]

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[angelface]

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[Jesse]

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[Orema]

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[Lecheloco]

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[Genesis]

In the heavens I see your eyes,
In your eyes I see the heavens.
Why look for another Moon
or another Sun?—
What I see will always be enough for me.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

- D.H. Lawrence

[Orema]

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. —Duke Elllington

[Fancy]

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

~David Bowie

[Lecheloco]

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[Lecheloco]

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[Genesis]

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[Angeltoes]

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[Fancy]

"...Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters."

—Ernestine Rose, responding to religious heckler at Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention, New York, Nov. 25-26, 1856 (History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1: 661-663)

[angelface]

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[Fancy]

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

-Alan Rickman
1946-2016

[Orema]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Bubala]

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[Fancy]

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

Jane Seymour

:praying:

[CherryWine]

If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

-- Cheryl Strayed

[Genesis]

With love you don’t bargain.
There, the choice is not yours.
Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence,
if you have the courage to look in its face.

~ Rum

[Lecheloco]

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[angelface]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Dance is active meditation.
When we dance, we go beyond thought,
beyond mind and beyond our own individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit.
This is the essence of the trance dance experience."

- Goa Gil

[Genesis]

"True autonomy arises when we have broken free of all the old structures, all psychological dependencies, and all fear.
Only then can that which is truly unique and fearless arise within us and begin to express itself.
Such expression cannot be planned or even imagined because it belongs to a dimension uninhibited by anything that has come before it.
True autonomy is not trying to fit in or be understood, nor is it a revolt against anything.
It is an uncaused phenomenon. Consciously or unconsciously all beings aspire to it, but very few find the courage to step into that infinity of aloneness."

- Adyashanti

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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©copyright2015

This will be going in the new book!

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[JDeere]

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

[angelface]

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[Genesis]

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.

~ Rumi

[Kätzchen]

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[Orema]

Where some see only scars, others see perseverance and the journey of kings. —Stephen C. Hogan

[Fancy]

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

-George Eliot

[Genesis]

When we practice loving kindness and compassion
we are the first ones to profit.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

If someone asks, "What does an angel's wing look like?" - smile.

~Rumi

[Genesis]

Don't go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don't see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to the thorn that I am.
I want to feel myself in you when you taste food,
in the arc of your mallet when you work,
when you visit friends, when you go
up on the roof by yourself at night.
There's nothing worse than to walk out along the street
without you. I don't know where I'm going.
You're the road, and the knower of roads,
more than maps, more than love..."

~Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Jesse]

Power is always dangerous, it attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Edward Abbey

[JDeere]

This is a personal quote from my grandfather!

"That's the way it goes, first your money, then your clothes"

[TL1]

Dunno if it's been used on here but this makes me laugh...

"Thank you for the tragedy; I need it for my art"
Kurt Cobain

[Fancy]

“Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.”

― Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight

[Orema]

No woman has ever written enough. —bell hooks

[Genesis]

"Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!
Tie them around your neck as a reminder.
Write them deep within your heart."

-Proverbs 3:3

[Jesse]

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[Genesis]

I Am Not Old
I am not old…she said
I am rare.
I am the standing ovation
At the end of the play.
I am the retrospective
Of my life as art
I am the hours
Connected like dots
Into good sense
I am the fullness
Of existing.
You think I am waiting to die…
But I am waiting to be found
I am a treasure.
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey
Ask me anything.

- Samantha Reynolds

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

On this anniversary of Roe V Wade...

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[Orema]

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[angelface]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

There is a force within that gives you life.
Seek that.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson

[Genesis]

"To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex.
It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way.
It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

[Genesis]

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

- Eckhart Tolle

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[cinnamongrrl]

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality.

The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.


James A. Michener

[Orema]

I think a lot about the Department of Energy because energy is my baby; oil, gas, minerals, those things God has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind’s use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources. I think a lot about the Department of Energy and if I were head of that I’d get rid of it.

—Sarah Palin, when asked if she'd want a post in the Trump administration.

[Orema]

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[Fancy]

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[betruetoyoursoul]

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[betruetoyoursoul]

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[Fancy]

“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
—Jules Feiffer, quote cited by Warren Allen Smith in Who's Who in Hell

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- Lao Tzu

[Genesis]

When searching for the lost remember eight things.
1.
We are vessels. We are circuit boards
swallowing the electricity of life upon birth.
It wheels through us creating every moment,
the pulse of a story, the soft hums of labor and love.
In our last moment it will come rushing
from our chests and be given back to the wind.
When we die. We go everywhere.
2.
Newton said energy is neither created nor destroyed.
In the halls of my middle school I can still hear
my friend Stephen singing his favorite song.
In the gymnasium I can still hear
the way he dribbled that basketball like it was a mallet
and the earth was a xylophone.
With an ear to the Atlantic I can hear
the Titanic’s band playing her to sleep,
Music. Wind. Music. Wind.
3.
The day my grandfather passed away there was the strongest wind,
I could feel his gentle hands blowing away from me.
I knew then they were off to find someone
who needed them more than I did.
On average 1.8 people on earth die every second.
There is always a gust of wind somewhere.
4.
The day Stephen was murdered
everything that made us love him rushed from his knife wounds
as though his chest were an auditorium
his life an audience leaving single file.
Every ounce of him has been
wrapping around this world in a windstorm
I have been looking for him for 9 years.
5.
Our bodies are nothing more than hosts to a collection of brilliant things.
When someone dies I do not weep over polaroids or belongings,
I begin to look for the lightning that has left them,
I feel out the strongest breeze and take off running.
6.
After 9 years I found Stephen.
I passed a basketball court in Boston
the point guard dribbled like he had a stadium roaring in his palms
Wilt Chamberlain pumping in his feet,
his hands flashing like x-rays,
a cross-over, a wrap-around
rewinding, turn-tables cracking open,
camera-men turn flash bulbs to fireworks.
Seven games and he never missed a shot,
his hands were luminous.
Pulsing. Pulsing.
I asked him how long he’d been playing,
he said nine 9 years
7.
The theory of six degrees of separation
was never meant to show how many people we can find,
it was a set of directions for how to find the people we have lost.
I found your voice Stephen,
found it in a young boy in Michigan who was always singing,
his lungs flapping like sails
I found your smile in Australia,
a young girls teeth shining like the opera house in your neck,
I saw your one true love come to life on the asphalt of Boston.
8.
We are not created or destroyed,
we are constantly transferred, shifted and renewed.
Everything we are is given to us.
Death does not come when a body is too exhausted to live
Death comes, because the brilliance inside us can only be contained for so long.
We do not die. We pass on, pass on the lightning burning through our throats.
when you leave me I will not cry for you
I will run into the strongest wind I can find
and welcome you home...

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[Genesis]

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power...

- Lao Tzu

[Genesis]

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge.
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything.
His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad.
Challenges are simply challenges.”

- Carlos Castaneda

[Genesis]

“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore,
if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas;
mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch.
The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.”

- C. JoyBell C.

[Fancy]

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
― Alison Bechdel

[Orema]

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. —Adam Sandberg

[Kätzchen]

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[Orema]

We certainly began the process as suspects of a crime, and the tables got turned and we ended up victims of a crime.

—Josh Schaffer (Houston lawyer, hired by Planned Parenthood) after a grand jury in Harris County, Texas, not only cleared Planned Parenthood's Gulf Coast affiliate but also indicted the two anti-abortion activists, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who had prompted the probe in the first place.

[Orema]

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[Fancy]

“And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance.”

― Nella Larsen, Passing

[deathbypoem]

you have
one hand on time
&
one hand on me
I feel
the density
between us
it is beautiful
and
exhausting

©copyright2016-Jardine

[Orema]

Corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct.

—The conclusion of Elizabeth Warren's recently released report (http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/Rigged_Justice_2016.pdf) examining 20 of the worst federal enforcement failures in 2015.

[Genesis]

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
Seek the path that demands your whole being.

~ Rumi

[C0LLETTE]

'The Load of Kale Plants' by May Blair.

I went to the fair, that being held in the town
On the fifth day of May, in the year forty-five
A very fine day for the bees for to hive.
Being young and undaunted my fortune to advance,
I went to the fair with a load of kale plants,
And up the Main Street, before Robinson’s Mart
I lowered my cart with a proud beating heart.
There were pamphreys and Dutch, and curleys so sweet,
And rousing drumheads that grow up like a leek.
There were cow kale, pull early boys, eat while you’re able
And pickle for dressing the gentleman’s table.
Now my plants were all sold, I wished them long life,
I have nothing to do but look out for a wife.
The ladies I’ll view, I’ll mark all their points,
I’ll not take a wife that is stiff in the joints.

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[gotoseagrl]

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot

[Genesis]

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By Laura Lee Cuthbert

[Genesis]

"The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it.
If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore;
if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water;
if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber;
if other species are biological kin, not resources;
or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect.
Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective."

- David Suzuki

[Genesis]

“One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process.
Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.”

- Phil Hine

[Genesis]

“Bring me your suffering.
The rattle roar of broken bones.
Bring me the riot in your heart.
Angry, wild and raw.
Bring it all.
I am not afraid of the dark.”

- Mia Hollow

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver

[Genesis]

“Let us read, and let us dance;
these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

- Voltaire

[Orema]

I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.

—Frederick Douglass, in a letter to a friend after reaching New York in 1838, after narrowly escaping the clutches of slavery.

[Fancy]

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

~Fredrick Douglass

[deathbypoem]

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[Orema]

I am that "ratchet" girl just as much as I am the girl who talks about politics and listens to soul music—and I am allowed to be. —Itunu Abolarinwa

[deathbypoem]

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One of my most favorite poets. Her words are fire.

Nayyirah Waheed

She also has a book called "salt". It's a must read if you haven't already. Whew.

[Jesse]

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[Jesse]

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[Jesse]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

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[Fancy]

You cannot make everybody happy.
You're not a Nutella jar.

- Anonymous

[Orema]

Much of America’s past is the story of white people benefiting from a system that white people designed and maintained, which increased their chances of success as it suppressed those same chances in other groups. Those systems persist to this day in some disturbing ways, but the current, vociferous naming and challenging of those systems, the placing of the lamp of truth near the seesaw of privilege and oppression, has provoked a profound sense of discomfort and even anger.... Last month, the MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes tweeted: “This campaign is starting to feel more and more like a long, national nervous breakdown.” For white America, I believe this is true.

—Charles M. Blow, from today's NYTimes.com opinion page (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/opinion/white-americas-broken-heart.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article)

[Fancy]

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

:vigil:

[Genesis]

C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour.
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.

- Albert Camus

[Genesis]

L’amour est l’emblème de l’éternité, il confond toute la notion de temps, efface toute la mémoire d’un commencement, toute la crainte d’une extrémité.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Madame de Staël

[LOQUI]

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning."
John Maxwell

[Bubala]

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[Fancy]

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”

― George Harrison

[Orema]

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[Kobi]

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[Genesis]

Happy is the moment, when we sit together,
With two forms, two faces, yet one soul,
you and I.

The flowers will bloom forever,
The birds will sing their eternal song,
The moment we enter the garden,
you and I.

~ Rumi

[CyberStud]

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[CyberStud]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Orema]

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[Orema]

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[Fancy]

“What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into
joy. . .
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.”


—-Alice Walker, "The Only Reason You Want to Go to Heaven Is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind," Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

[CyberStud]

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[Orema]

...Police chiefs in the cities most affected by heroin are responding not by invoking military metaphors, weapons and tactics but by ensuring that police officers save lives and get people into rehab. As one former narcotics officer described his change of heart on addiction, “These are people and they have a purpose in life and we can’t as law enforcement look at them any other way.” In his inability to name the change that allowed this epiphany, his words also capture our cringe-worthy self-denial. Suddenly, police officers understand crime as a sign of underlying addiction requiring coordinated assistance, rather than a scourge to be eradicated.

It is hard to describe the bittersweet sting that many African-Americans feel witnessing this national embrace of addicts. It is heartening to see the eclipse of the generations-long failed war on drugs. But black Americans are also knowingly weary and embittered by the absence of such enlightened thinking when those in our own families were similarly wounded. When the face of addiction had dark skin, this nation’s police did not see sons and daughters, sister and brothers. They saw “brothas,” young thugs to be locked up, rather than “people with a purpose in life.”

—Ekow N Yahkah in this (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/when-addiction-has-a-white-face.html?ref=opinion&_r=0) opinion article at the NYTimes.com

[Orema]

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[Orema]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[LOQUI]

"There is no longer distance than the lack of interest"
-Unknown-

[Smiling]

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

-Rumi

[Bubala]

http://iqquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cat-quotes-2.jpg

[Nat]

"If you want to be distracted from your life's work, there shortage of opportunities."

- John Acuff, Good Life Project podcast

[Orema]

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of our responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. —Beverly Daniel Tatum

[Fancy]

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

[Jesse]

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[Orema]

While I revel in the death of no one, I cannot abide the hagiographic nonsense that is presently being offered by persons across the spectrum about how recently departed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “passionate” and brilliant, ad infinitum. There is nothing brilliant about putrescence, nothing insightful and worthwhile about venality posing as insight. To say that there is nothing unconstitutional about executing innocent people (as he did in fact say), or that it’s OK to imprison persons for “gay sex,” among other things, is never the work of a genius no matter the big words and poetic flair with which they might say it. Those opinions are evil, vile and worthy of utter derision. They are not the work of a genius, but a fetid little man whose moral calibration slouched towards those of Torquemada and the Inquisitors. I feel for his family and mourn their personal loss. And that is the extent of my mourning, as it is the only type of which one such as this is deserving.

—Tim Wise

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“It is good to love many things,
for therein lies the true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much,
and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is well done.”

- Vincent van Gogh