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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment,
anger, jealousy and fear are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
They teach us to perk up and lean in, when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away.
They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

- Pema Chödrön

Femme Warrior <3

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

- Leo Tolstoy

Anarchy = Self-thinking individuals...

I was dead then alive.
Weeping then laughing.
The power of love came into me and I became fierce like a lion then ...
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi

Personal accountability <3

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.” ―André Gide

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem".
-from Walt Whitman ~ Leaves of Grass preface

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

__Saul Bellow

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. —Stephen Hawking

"Vice President-elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at 'Hamilton: An American Musical.' We really do,"

"We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us. All of us."

—Brandon Victor Dixon to Vice President-elect Mike Pence at the end of a performance of Hamilton, the hit Broadway musical about colonial rebels shaping the future of an unformed country.

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Originally Posted by Orema (Post 1108990)

I can only imagine the take of this show-but I sure would love to see it.

You do not need to settle for leftovers,crumbs, or pieces of a person, when you’re a whole being who requires and deserves more than that.”

-Awakened Vibrations

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
―Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You don’t measure love in time.
You measure love in transformation.
Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth,
while the briefest of encounters change everything.
The heart doesn't wear a watch- it’s timeless.
It doesn’t care how long you know someone.
It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection.
What the heart cares about is resonance.
Resonance that opens it,
resonance that enlivens it,
resonance that calls it home.
And when it finds it,
the transformation begins...

- Jeff Brown (~ an excerpt from 'An Uncommon Bond')

It can be so helpful to express our unsaid words, anger and grief to those who have hurt us.
There is no good reason to carry someone else's baggage up the mountain.
It weighs us down on a journey that is already challenging enough.
Better to shed it so that we can move into life with greater freedom.
At the same time, we have to be sure not to make our healing dependent on how others receive our expression.
Many of those we share with will be too unconscious, stubborn or defensive to take in our experience, even if we express it in the gentlest of ways.
It may be too shocking to their ways of organizing reality.
It may be too painful to face.
Not everyone is ready or able to do the deep work that self-reflection demands.
This is not to say that we hold back- we must express our truth one way or the other- but it is to say that we are best served by sharing it without expectation. The liberation lies in the expression itself...

- Jeff Brown

Inquiry of the potential...

Perhaps the most important question you can ask a potential love partner relates to their relationship with the shadow—their own, and the shadow that emerges in the relationship itself. That is: “How much work are you willing to do on yourself and the relationship when the s*#t hits the fan? Are you willing to go as deep as we have to go to work it through, or are you only interested in a breezy, low-maintenance relationship?” Few people ever talk about this during the romantic phase, because they are not envisioning the challenges to come. But it is an essential inquiry. I have known many people who were shocked to watch their ‘great love’ walk out the door when the connection required personal accountability and therapeutic work-through. Some of us will brave the journey; others will flee the fire. Some of us will do the work to transform our stories into the light at their source; others will run away with their ‘tales’ between their legs, only to find out later that their tales go with them everywhere they go. If you can determine someone’s willingness at the beginning, you can save yourself a lot of trouble later.

- Jeff Brown (~an excerpt from 'AN UNCOMMON BOND')

I too would have boo'ed at a man who advocates for conversion therapy.

-me

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

__Jean de La Bruyere

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

-Stewart Udall

“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

- Yogi Bhajan..

Keep talking, I always yawn like this when I'm interested.

A great truth...

I pluck chrysanthemums by the eastern fence
And see the distant southern mountains.
The mountain air is fresh at dusk.
Flying birds return in flocks.
In these things there lies a great truth,
But when I try to express it, I cannot find the words.

- T'ao Ch'ien

There is a candle in your heart...

There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,
embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that
Love
comes to you of its own accord,
and the yearning for it
cannot be learned in any school.

- Rumi

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along by Charles M. Blow, New York Times, Thanksgiving morning, 2016

Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper.

As The Times reported, Trump actually seemed to soften some of his positions:

He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But he should never have said that he was going to do that in the first place.

He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t encourage the military to use torture. But he should never have said that he would do that in the first place.

He said that he would have an “open mind” on climate change. But that should always have been his position.

You don’t get a pat on the back for ratcheting down from rabid after exploiting that very radicalism to your advantage. Unrepentant opportunism belies a staggering lack of character and caring that can’t simply be vanquished from memory. You did real harm to this country and many of its citizens, and I will never — never — forget that.

As I read the transcript and then listened to the audio, the slime factor was overwhelming.

After a campaign of bashing The Times relentlessly, in the face of the actual journalists, he tempered his whining with flattery.

At one point he said:

“I just appreciate the meeting and I have great respect for The New York Times. Tremendous respect. It’s very special. Always has been very special.”

He ended the meeting by saying:

“I will say, The Times is, it’s a great, great American jewel. A world jewel. And I hope we can all get along well.”

I will say proudly and happily that I was not present at this meeting. The very idea of sitting across the table from a demagogue who preyed on racial, ethnic and religious hostilities and treating him with decorum and social grace fills me with disgust, to the point of overflowing. Let me tell you here where I stand on your “I hope we can all get along” plea: Never.

You are an aberration and abomination who is willing to do and say anything — no matter whom it aligns you with and whom it hurts — to satisfy your ambitions.

I don’t believe you care much at all about this country or your party or the American people. I believe that the only thing you care about is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment. Your strongest allegiance is to your own cupidity.

I also believe that much of your campaign was an act of psychological projection, as we are now learning that many of the things you slammed Clinton for are things of which you may actually be guilty.

You slammed Clinton for destroying emails, then Newsweek reported last month that your companies “destroyed emails in defiance of court orders.” You slammed Clinton and the Clinton Foundation for paid speeches and conflicts of interest, then it turned out that, as BuzzFeed reported, the Trump Foundation received a $150,000 donation in exchange for your giving a 2015 speech made by video to a conference in Ukraine. You slammed Clinton about conflicts of interest while she was secretary of state, and now your possible conflicts of interest are popping up like mushrooms in a marsh.

You are a fraud and a charlatan. Yes, you will be president, but you will not get any breaks just because one branch of your forked tongue is silver.

I am not easily duped by dopes.

I have not only an ethical and professional duty to call out how obscene your very existence is at the top of American government; I have a moral obligation to do so.

I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything, but rather to speak up for truth and honor and inclusion. This isn’t just about you, but also about the moral compass of those who see you for who and what you are, and know the darkness you herald is only held at bay by the lights of truth.

It’s not that I don’t believe that people can change and grow. They can. But real growth comes from the accepting of responsibility and repenting of culpability. Expedient reversal isn’t growth; it’s gross.

So let me say this on Thanksgiving: I’m thankful to have this platform because as long as there are ink and pixels, you will be the focus of my withering gaze.

I’m thankful that I have the endurance and can assume a posture that will never allow what you represent to ever be seen as everyday and ordinary.

No, Mr. Trump, we will not all just get along. For as long as a threat to the state is the head of state, all citizens of good faith and national fidelity — and certainly this columnist — have an absolute obligation to meet you and your agenda with resistance at every turn.

I know this in my bones, and for that I am thankful.

“Women need to live from within so they can gain knowledge of self.
When you know who you are & truly love who you are then envy cannot exist.
Allow love to combat envy.
I see the gift in women.
I see the strength in women.
I see the love in women.
I see earth angels who continue to fly...”

―Bindu

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Happy Birthday Louisa May Alcott :)

Faith is under the left nipple.

__Martin Luther

On the soft silk of a blossom,
The white dawn of love wrote,
O you, always lovely as a flower, I love you, I love you.
On the sands of a calm sea.
With the pen of kindness and the ink of tenderness,
In a… More special and secret language, it wrote again,
O you who have turned into a mythical bird and live in a legendry mountain,
I love you, I love you.

The sand fled suddenly as the breeze appeared,
A flower dropped from a branch,
The gust made a wailing sound.
And a bird began to sing: As long as I exist, everywhere and at all times,
No matter where you are, I remain the dust of your lane,
Because you know, I love you, I love you.

by Ali Asghar Mazhari

Does not hurt...