Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Genesis]

“Don't tell me the moon is shining;
show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

- Anton Chekhov

[Genesis]

To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.

- Dejan Stojanovic

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[Nat]

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are
with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I
translate into a new tongue.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

I chant the chant of dilation or pride,
We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
I show that size is only development.

Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and
still pass on.

I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

Press close bare-bosom'd night — press close magnetic
nourishing night!
Night of south winds — night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night — mad naked summer night.

Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of departed sunset — earth of the mountains misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbow'd earth — rich apple-blossom'd earth!
Smile, for your lover comes.

Prodigal, you have given me love — therefore I to you give
love!
O unspeakable passionate love.

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Poema Del Renunciamiento
José Angel Buesa

Pasaras por mi vida sin saber que pasaste.
Pasaras en silencio por mi amor, y al pasar,
fingire una sonrisa, como un dulce contraste
del dolor de quererte ... y jamas lo sabrás.

Soñare con el nacar virginal de tu frente;
soñare con tus ojos de esmeraldas de mar;
soñare con tus labios desesperadamente;
soñare con tus besos ... y jamás lo sabrás.
Quizas pases con otro que te diga al oido
esas frases que nadie como yo te dirá;
y, ahogando para siempre mi amor inadvertido,
te amare más que nunca ... y jamás lo sabrás.

Yo te amare en silencio, como algo inaccesible,
como un sueño que nunca lograré realizar;
y el lejano perfume de mi amor imposible
rozará tus cabellos ... y jamás lo sabrás.

Y si un día una lágrima denuncia mi tormento,
-- el tormento infinito que te debo ocultar --
te diré sonriente: "No es nada ... ha sido el viento".
Me enjugaré la lágrima ... ¡y jamás lo sabrás!

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Note: The words for this poem are in the above/previous post.

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[Jesse]

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

[Orema]

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ― John Berryman

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[Genesis]

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
- Eckhart Tolle

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[Genesis]

"Never blame another person for your personal choices — you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices."
- Caroline Myss

[Genesis]

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.

- Kahlil Gibran

[Orema]

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
—the late Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991

[Blade]

The South thrives on denial....Lee Smith

Profound huh?

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[Genesis]

"What a catastrophe, what a maiming of life when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling,
taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!
This is what is the matter with us, we are bleeding at the roots,
because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery,
because poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."

- D.H. Lawrence

[Genesis]

“When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path.
These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.”

- Yusef Lateef

[Genesis]

“All you have to do is to pay attention;
lessons always arrive when you are ready,
and if you can read the signs,
you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

- Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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[Kobi]

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[Orema]

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. —Shirly Temple Black

[Kobi]

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[homoe]

"life is like a suitcase, you can fit a lot into it" Yoko Ono

[Kobi]

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[TheHinduPose]

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[Kätzchen]

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Late in life, I read somewhere that Gore Vidal and Eleanor Roosevelt were friends. Too, I also appreciated his take on bisexuality. My favorite quote of his, is: "No good deed ever goes unpunished," --- Gore Vidal.

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[Genesis]

"What nature delivers to us is never stale.
Because what nature creates has eternity in it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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[Fancy]

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.


-Lady Gaga

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[LOQUI]

"Always cherish the people who were there for you when no one else was"
Unknown

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"Do you ever write a really long message and about half through you're like "you know what, they dont even care" and delete it."
Unknown

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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"


-Henry David Thoreau-

[Fancy]

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

~C.S. Lewis

[Orema]

Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety, and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family. —Ben Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

[Orema]

"Trump's rhetoric a 'perfect reflection' of many in GOP"

While Donald Trump’s radical agenda does not reflect the values of the American people, it is a perfect reflection of many in the House Republican Conference.... The reality is, Donald Trump is just being more candid about the agenda of discrimination House Republicans have been advancing for years.... While disassociating themselves from Trump, House Republicans voted repeatedly to refuse to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the Capitol ground.... While associating themselves with the heroes of Selma, House Republicans refuse to renew the Voting Rights Act. While House Republicans claim to oppose violence against women, they overwhelmingly voted to exclude immigrant, LGBT and Native American women from the protections of the Violence Against Women Act. —Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives

Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/nancy-pelosi-trump-220034#ixzz41gmrNN1D

[Genesis]

Love cannot be learned or taught.
Love comes as Grace.

~ Rumi

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[Bubala]

"What's more painful? When a person whom you trusted hurts you, or when a person whom you've hurt still trusts you?"

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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
T.S. Eliot

[Orema]

Time makes more converts than reason. —Thomas Paine

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“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

-Meg Cabot-

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[Genesis]

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.
You breathe.
Keep breathing.
When there is a storm and you stand in front of a tree,
if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall.
But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability..."

~The Revenant

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[Genesis]

Soulmates aren’t
the people
that make you the
happiest, no.
They’re instead the
ones
who make you feel
the most
burning like a
star on the edge of
the world
as one night ends
and another
begins.
Radiation and
reactions.
Scientific poetry,
poetic science.
Around and around
in an endless
circle.
They’re pure
elation,
danger, and
ecstasy.
They’re the ones
that can destroy
you.
They’re the only
ones
you long to know...

(~an excerpt from Victoria Erickson's beautiful new poetry collection- Edge of Wonder-

[Genesis]

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

- Joseph Addison

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[Genesis]

“We all have the ability to heal ourselves;
I know, I have done so...
In the morning, know that you are Loved, You Are Love and You Love”

- Lisa Bellini

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[Genesis]

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
- you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

- E.E. Cummings

[Genesis]

“I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together. For unity and peace.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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[Jesse]

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt-

[Orema]

Those of us who don’t live in trailer parks or inner cities might think low-income families typically benefit from public housing or some other kind of government assistance. But the opposite is true. Three-quarters of families who qualify for housing assistance don’t get it because there simply isn’t enough to go around. This arrangement would be unthinkable with other social services that cover basic needs. What if food stamps only covered one in four families?

America stands alone among wealthy democracies in the depth and expanse of its poverty. Ask most politicians what we should do about this, and they will answer by calling for more and better jobs. Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, thinks we need to do more to “incentivize work.” Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, thinks we should raise the minimum wage. But jobs are only part of the solution because poverty is not just a product of joblessness and low wages. It is also a product of exploitation.

—Matthew Desmond

For the full article, click here (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/the-eviction-economy.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region&region=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region&_r=0)

[Genesis]

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

- C.G. Jung

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[Genesis]

Happy International Women's Day.

(Heaven is under the feet of mothers )

(Be respectful to women, for they are the mothers of mankind.)

(Woman is a ray of God.)

Some say that a woman is for sleeping with
Long winter nights..
Some say that a woman is for play-like
Like a sexy dancer on a green harvest ground
To make her dance with nine-castanets…
Some say she is my spouse..
Some say she is the spiritual debt
That I carry around my neck
Some say; she’s the one who leavens my bread,
Some say; she’s one who gives my children birth…
She’s neither this nor that, not a sexy dancer, not a spouse, not a debt, none of that!
She is my arms and my legs and my head..
My mother, my wife, my sister, my lover-confidant
She is My Lifelong Bosom Friend..

[Nat]

"Yet, it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."

JRR Tolkien, Return of the King

[LOQUI]

Does your reputation bother you? But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us – how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space – and most of it uninhabited. How many people there will be to admire you, and who they are. “The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.”

[Genesis]

"You know quite well,
deep within you,
that there is only a single magic,
a single power,
a single salvation ...
and that is called loving...

- Herman Hesse

[Genesis]

“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not.
If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred.
I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience.
They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor.
They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe.
The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it.
Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special.
Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special.
It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence.
Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke.
I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it.
Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”

- Adyashanti

[Genesis]

"All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself.
All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within,
and you will surely find it."

- Eileen Caddy

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence."

- Henry David Thoreau

[Orema]

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[LOQUI]

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.”

[Soon]

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”

~C.S. Lewis

[Orema]

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[Electrocell]

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler

[Orema]

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[Soon]

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[Orema]

Twelve days before Reagan was elected president in November, 1980, Christians for Reagan, a supposedly independent lobby organized to capture the fundamentalist vote for the Republican nominee, announced that it would pay for a barrage of advertisements throughout the South, which attacked President Carter for “catering” to homosexuals. Citing the language of the Democratic party platform, Gary Jarmin, national director of Christians for Reagan, described the purpose of the campaign this way: “If there's any reason at all they should oppose Carter, this is it.” On one spot, an announcer intoned, “The gays in San Francisco elected a mayor; now they're going to elect a president.” Before the ads began, polls had shown that Carter, a born-again Christian, still had considerable support among the Evangelicals. But the hard-hitting TV spots were extremely effective, and they helped Reagan carry every Southern state except Georgia, where Carter had been governor. Partly because the commercials never aired in New York or Washington, most people outside the South were never aware of them.…

From The Real Record of the Reagans on Gays and AIDS (http://http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/03/11/the_reagans_surrounded_by_discreet_gays_still_did_ little_to_help_with_aids.html) by Charles Kaiser

[LOQUI]

"Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm."

[LOQUI]

Life is full of beautiful moments and imperfect people

[Angeltoes]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Genesis]

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[LOQUI]

"Every thing we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Every thing we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius

[LOQUI]

Confine yourself to the present.
-Marcus Aurelius-

[Orema]

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[Orema]

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
—Radclyffe Hall

[Kobi]

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[Kobi]

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[CyberStud]

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[Genesis]

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, of fix us in the present.
We are made of layers, cells, constellations."

- Anais Nin

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. —Malala Yousafzai

[Kobi]

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[Fancy]

Confidence is not, "Will they like me?"
Confidence is, "I'll be fine if they don't."

-I don't know who said it, but I live it.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

She let go.
Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons.
Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice.
She didn’t read a book on how to let go.
She didn’t search the scriptures.
She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go.
She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.
She didn’t analyze whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word.
She just let go.
No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle.
It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone forevermore...
~*~*~*~*~
The author of this poem is unclear. A few sites list Ernest Holmes as the author, another Jennifer Eckert Bernau and still another Rev. Safire Rose....

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

You think you have lost your faith but you have only misplaced your faith and you can find it where it lies now - Deep in your soul
And the way to do that is through the simple process of LOVE
LOVE yourself FORGIVE yourself
YOU can’t LOVE and FORGIVE other people if you don’t first of all LOVE and FORGIVE yourself
YOU have to realize that people are fallible beings
They make mistakes they have to be excused from these mistakes and allowed to continue on their quest for a better life and for goodness--
So LOVE yourself and then LOVE other people
Please forgive yourselves...
Go on a journey of finding love and forgiveness
Love PEOPLE, LOVE yourself.

(Delilah Video - Monologue )
Florence + the Machine

[Kobi]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience,
the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”

- Eric Micha'el Leventhal

[Genesis]

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[Jesse]

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you? - "The Rum Diary" - Johnny Depp quoting what the lobster told him.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"The shaman knows that the soul's urge toward beauty is not about perfect symmetry and mainstream approval.
It is not about opening doors in business, or snagging the right mate, or fitting in at the A-list parties.
The shaman knows that beauty is about opening doors to joy, snagging the moment, and fitting into your own life.
She knows beauty is not something to buy.
It is a path, a way of living and being in the world.
The only path and the only way, if you want to keep dancing and singing."

- Robin Rice

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"I am not afraid to tell you, 'I love you.'
Your mind will say, 'How can you love me when you don't even know me?'
I don't need to know you. I don't need to justify my love.
I love you because this is my pleasure.
Love coming out of me makes me happy, and it's not important if you reject me because I do not reject myself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz, The Voice of Knowledge

[Orema]

The Obama era didn’t herald a post-racial America as much as it did a racialized one, where millions of whites were hyperaware of and newly anxious about their racial status....

This isn’t the first time in our history that whites have worried about losing their pre-eminent status. In the early 20th century, massive Southern and Eastern European immigration, as well as Chinese immigration in the American West, fueled nativism and white racism, and helped lead to the resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan. The revived Klan organized millions of white Americans in a movement against immigrants, blacks, and religious minorities like Catholics. This, along with a broader nativist movement, had an enormous impact on American politics—entire states, like Indiana, were controlled by Klan-backed politicians while national lawmakers passed harsh, restrictive immigration laws. Our current burst of nativism and racial anxiety is proving to be a similarly potent force. —Jamelle Bouie


From How Trump Happened (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/03/how_donald_trump_happened_racism_against_barack_ob ama.html) at Slate.com

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Know then that the body is merely a garment.
Go seek the wearer, not the cloak...

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say,
yes, I will take you I will love you, again...

-Ellen Bass

[Genesis]

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[Jesse]

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

[Kobi]

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[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

You are a combination of the five people you spend the most time with.

Most people regard me as a loner, but honestly I do enjoy the company of others.
I am very particular with whom I choose to keep within my inner circle and even then I ensure I spend lots of time alone with myself so I can gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of who I really am.

I have become very mindful of my decisions and ensuring they are a product of my highest good and not what is influencing me.
Choose wisely who stays the closest to you.
Always strive to ensure one of those five people in your life is a positive mentor.

~Will "Story" Rivera

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

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[Orema]

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. —Brené Brown

[Genesis]

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[Stone-Butch]

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down,

the Last Fish Eaten, and

the Last Stream Poisoned,

Then they will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money

[Stone-Butch]

Stupid people have to say Something

Intelligent people have something to say

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it...

~ Shams Tabrizi

[Angeltoes]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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We’ve all heard a version of this saying,
something to the effect of each cloud has a silver lining,
but when you hear from a renowned genius that each difficulty has an opportunity within it, you take notice.
Just because you’re facing a difficulty is no reason to give up or get down on yourself.
Find that opportunity that’s hidden within whatever difficulty you’re facing,
and see how you can make the most out of it.
What a difference that will make when instead of setting you back, difficulties only serve to move you forward...

[Genesis]

http://brightdrops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/elizabethbarrettbrowninglighttomorrowwithtoday.jpg

Often we lose sight of how important today can be,
and if things have gotten tough for you it may be because you didn’t properly use your yesterdays, and now you’re dealing with the consequences.
So instead of ruing that you should have done more in the past,
use the opportunity you have today to make a better tomorrow.
It’s so hard to wrap your head around the idea that your future will be better because of what you’re doing right now, today,
and that you’re living the sum of all of your previous todays.
But once you do the sky’s the limit...

-Anonymous

[Genesis]

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It’s easy to look at the abilities you lack and start to feel bad that you don’t know enough, or can’t do enough.
This alone can be the start of a bad day,
because once you start thinking like that it’s hard for anything else to go your way that day.
But once you shift the focus to your long list of abilities,
to all of the things you do know, and all of the things you can do, you start getting inspired rather than discouraged,
and more things start to go your way.
You’ll start playing to your strengths instead of wallowing in your weaknesses.

- Anonymous

[Genesis]

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Most would consider Michael Jordan a giant success when it comes to the game of basketball,
but he was humble enough to realize that even more than is innate greatness it was the attempts and the many failures that led to that success.
He didn’t make 100% of his shots, but he wasn’t afraid to shoot the ball when the game was on the line,
or to take plenty of shots knowing that some would go in.
If failures have been piling up in your life just remember that it’s part of playing the game,
and at least you’re in the game taking shots...

-Anonymous

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Kobi]

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[Orema]

Give light and people will find the way. —Ella Baker

[Kätzchen]

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[Genesis]

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This is a quote that you can use each day to remind yourself that the best way to go is forward.
There’s no going back and there’s no standing still, onward we go.
So many times we get lulled into a sense of comfort of complacency,
but you have to keep the fires stoked and the engine moving.
This is a great way to sum up that you always want to be making progress and having fun things happen in your life.
When you choose the direction you want to go, many times you get there...

-Anonymous

[Genesis]

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So many times it seems that people will try to control things that they just have no control over.
The waves are going to come to shore no matter what,
so instead of trying to stop them we need to learn how to use them to our advantage and have as much fun as we can on them.
This is a great quote that even those that don’t surf can appreciate.
This quote is left to interpretation because everyone will have a different idea of what the waves represent. Hang ten!

-Anonymous

[Genesis]

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It’s so true that most people describe the thorn as being the
prickly part of the rose instead of the rose being the beautiful and sweet smell part of the thorn.
It’s really a matter of how you look at it, so why not always take the positive side of things and
give it the most magical spin you can.
It is what it is, a plant that has both positive and negative to it, much like life, so which part do you want to focus on?

-Anonymous

[Genesis]

http://brightdrops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/c-s-lewis-you-are-never-too-old.jpg


It’s easy to think that the time has passed us by to set a new goal or have a new dream.
Maybe we’ve reached some of our goals and now we seem like we’re just coasting along.
Or maybe you think you’re too old to get started on some great work.
This is a quote for those that feel they’re past the point of starting up anything new.
It should spark a new fire and get you dreaming and goal setting again.
Always have a goal and a dream to pursue as this is when you’re at your happiest...

-Anonymous

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

" ... on her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and President than the Republican candidate on his best day." —Bernie Sanders

Source: talkingpointsmemo.com (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-candidate) (November 8, 2015)

[Genesis]

"I am planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots."

- Andrea Koehle Jones, The Wish Trees

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

We are being told that Nina Simone’s face bears no real import on the new eponymous movie about her life, starring Zoe Saldana. “The most important thing,” said Robert Johnson, whose studio is releasing Nina, “is that creativity or quality of performance should never be judged on the basis of color, or ethnicity, or physical likeness.” This is obviously false. Saldana could be the greatest thespian of her time, but no one would consider casting her as Marilyn Monroe. Indeed Nina’s producers have gone to great ends—tragicomic ends—to invoke Nina Simone’s face, darkening Saldana’s skin, adorning her with prosthetics. Neither the term blackface nor brownface is entirely appropriate here. We are not so much talking about deliberate mockery as something much more insidious.
There is something deeply shameful in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic.

It’s difficult to subtract the choice to cast Saldana from the economics of Hollywood—Saldana is seen as bankable in a way that other black women in her field are not. It’s equally difficult to ignore the fact that, while it is hard for all women in Hollywood, it is particularly hard for black women, and even harder for black women who share the dark skin, broad nose and full lips of Nina Simone. This fact is not separable from this country’s racist history, nor is the notion of “darkening up” a lighter skinned black person. Producers did it to Fredi Washington in Emperor Jones. They did it to Carmen de Lavallade in Lydia Bailey. (The make-up was called “Negro Number Two.”) They did it because they wanted to use the aura of blackness while evading the social realities of blackness. It’s possible that the producers were not, themselves, personally racist. This has no bearing whatsoever on anything. In America, racism is a default setting. To do nothing, to go along with the market, to claim innocence or neutrality, is to inevitably be a cog in the machine of racist hierarchy.

The producers of Nina are the heirs of this history—not personal racists, but cogs. Jezebel’s Kara Brown researched the team behind Nina. It is almost entirely white. Doubtless, these are good, non-racist people—but not good enough. No one on the team seems to understand the absurdity at hand—making a movie about Nina Simone while operating within the very same machinery that caused Simone so much agony in the first place. I do not mean to be personally harsh here. I am not trying to hurt people. But there is something deeply shameful—and hurtful—in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic. In this sense, the creation of Nina is not a neutral act. It is part of the problem. —Ta-Nehisi Coates

Source: Nina Simone's Face (http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/)


(I am so over biopics of Black artists and vow not to watch this nor any others.)

[Genesis]

A life without love is a waste.
“Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?”,
don’t ask yourself this question.
Discrimination leads to discrimination.
Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition.
Love is a world itself.
Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning...

~ Shams

[Bubala]

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[Soon]

“There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn’t sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. It goes against kindness.”

― Shannon L. Alder

[Genesis]

“You must learn her.

You must know the reason why she is silent.
You must trace her weakest spots.
You must write to her.
You must remind her that you are there.
You must know how long it takes for her to give up.
You must be there to hold her when she is about to.

You must love her because many have tried and failed.
And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.

And, this is how you keep her.”

- Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

[Kobi]

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[Jesse]

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." Albert Guinon

I caught myself doing this very thing today. Thankfully, the person with whom I was conversing with was extremely gracious and forgiving. -Jesse

[Orema]

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[LOQUI]

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde

[Orema]

Unwanted favors gain no gratitude. —Sophocles

[Jesse]

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[Orema]

It is often easier to fight for principles that to live up to them. —Adlai Stevenson

[gotoseagrl]

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi

[Orema]

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[Soon]

“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.”
--Pema Chodron

[Bubala]

“Venus favors the bold.” Ovid

[Bubala]

"Don't worry much if your wife is fateful or not, worry more whether or not you do everything you can to make her happy, for happy ones rarely go screwing around."

[Genesis]

"... To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged ..."

- David Whyte

[Genesis]

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
That myth is more potent than history.
That dreams are more powerful than facts.
That hope always triumphs over experience.
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death...”

- Robert Fulghum

[Genesis]

“I am a lover without a lover.
I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

~Warsan Shire

[Orema]

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[Orema]

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[Nat]

Proof of Poetry

BY TOM SLEIGH

I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter
and in my twenties I almost ended up there—

and then as an alternative to vodka, to live

alone like a hermit philosopher and court
the extreme poverty that I suspected lay in store for me anyway—

and then there were the years in which

I needed very badly to take refuge in mediocrity,
years like blunt scissors cutting out careful squares,

and that was the worst, the very worst—

you could say that always my life
was like a patchwork quilt always ripped apart—

my life like scraps stitched together in a dream

in which animals and people,
plants, chimeras, stars,

even minerals were in a preordained harmony—

a dream forgotten because it has to be forgotten,
but that I looked for desperately, but only sporadically

found in fragments, a hand lifted to strike

or caress or simply lifted for some unknown reason—
and in memory too, some specific pain, sensation of cold or warmth.

I loved that harmony in all its stages of passion,

the voices still talking inside me . . . but then, instead of harmony,
there was nothing but rags scattered on the ground.

[Nat]

IN THE COUNSELOR’S WAITING ROOM

- Bettie Sellers

​The terra cotta girl
​with big flat farm feet
​traces furrows in the rug
with her toes,
​reads an existentialist paperback
from psychology class,
finds no ease there
from the guilt of loving
the quiet girl down the hall.
Their home soil has seen to this visit,
their Baptist mothers,
who weep for the waste of sturdy hips
ripe for grandchildren.

[homoe]

"The only safe thing is to take a chance" Elaine May

[homoe]

"Who is the happier man: He who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter Thompson

[homoe]

"In America, any boy can become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.......Adlai Stevenson

[Orema]

https://www.smartsheet.com/sites/default/files/haymaker/Quotes_Malala.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West

[LOQUI]

"Some talk to you in their free time, and some free their time to talk to you."
-Unknown-

[Soon]

“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love

[LOQUI]

"He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived."

[Orema]

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[homoe]

In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem...... George Carlin

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Soon]

"To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend a lifetime trying to learn and understand."

--Sylvia Plath

[Genesis]

“I know so many last words.
But I will never know hers.”

– John Green, Looking For Alaska