I would rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies. -Bertrand Russel


I never learned anything from anybody who agreed with me. - Unknown


People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"Do unto others twenty percent better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." -Linus Pauling

Confusion Speaks
 

Confusion Speaks

Dark night; her blood beckons the demons,
what reasoning is left in this place.

Left alone pale and lifeless as her soul searches for answers but there is none.

The only sound she hears is the last breath as her heart stops and like hungry thieves they use their long tongues licking up every drop of blood as they rendered it from her soul.

Confusion speaks, but nobody listens.

written by ME.

"The unending paradox is that we do learn from pain". Madeleine L Engle

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do." ~Robert Brault

Being generous in some way by giving emotionally, sexually, or energetically feels threatening because it is a selfless act which requires a loosening or letting go of one's self or psychological bounderies.

~Dr. Richard Nicastro

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou

"Why invest in a commitment when a girl will let you be a squatter in her life free of charge?"

(Me, when asked by the therapist why I thought my ex was unable/unwilling to commit to our relationship on an emotional level)

Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working.

All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Kindness eases Change.

- from earthseed: the books of the living, in parable of the sower & parable of the talents by octavia butler.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. Paulo Coelho

If you live long enough, life will humble you. Life will level your defenses, expose your bad habits, and reveal self-inflicted nonsense and self-imposed unworthiness. When you are paying attention, you will get the point.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand. -Chinese proverb

Once you start worrying about what other people think of you, you stop being yourself. - Unknown

Fear the man that has nothing to lose. - Unknown

Never expect.
Never assume.
Never ask.
And never demand.
Just let it be.
Because if it's meant to be, it will happen the way you want things to be.


(idealistic, not always practical!)

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

:candle:


~Rumi

Wars aren't fought in the trenches rather in the mind, body, and soul. For life is the battle field, society and emotions are the adversaries, and victory is determined by our reactions to those very forces. -Curtis Reeves


My choice is what I choose to do, and if I'm causing no harm, it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if you're causing no harm, it shouldn't bother me.-Ben Harper


Luck is a Skill. -Adel Ebraheem

Below the level of awareness, our brain often tries to protect us from the very thing we wish to attract. As we get close, anxiety sets in and the thoughts follow. Don't be afraid of the anxiety. Don't be afraid of the thoughts. Simply realize your primitive, reactive automatic brain is trying to protect you from something of which you need no protection. Don't believe, trust, or take direction from the impulses to hold you back. Keep moving forward and they will become less. And you will see more clearly, with your mind, what was in front of you the whole time.
Coach MD

And yet, just last night, being at a masquerade, I saw the prettiest creature, fresh from Milan...which gave me some sensations like a villian.


~Lord Byron

“this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love”

–David Whyte

Some days one thinks deep, some days not so much.....
 

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

~Adam Sandler

*chuckle*.....That's great, Fancy.

Yeah, it made me giggle... gotta love the silliness!

She said it didn't matter
All hy had to do was flatter

she said she didnt care
what hy chose to wear

When they arrived,
she said
Hys shoes don't match his socks, slacks or tie!
Oh me oh my
What's a girl to do?

I suggested
A shopping trip for two

gaea051812

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Tennyson

The mind is a labyrinth, ladies and gentlemen.
A puzzle.
And while the paths of the brain are clearly visible, its ways deceptively patterned, its destinations are unknown,
its secrets still secrets.


Hell Raiser II