As you are shifting you will begin to realize that the journey to love isn't about finding "the one" but becoming the one. When you recognize that you are your own soulmate, you feel at home and peaceful within yourself. Sit alone. Befriend your soul. Feel it into existence. @TheOracleReadsU
A photo of a woman lying on the grass, her cheek, ear and hand facing down to the earth so she can feel and hear. It is on top of a cliff and there is ocean in the background. There is a social media post above from 'podcastwizard', it reads "sorry boss, can't come in today. I was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world."
What poetry has taught me is that if a tree falls in a forest and there's no one around to cry for it, the other trees will learn how to. In the wake of another splintering they will say, I see you. I too am growing sideways. Poetry as Community, Ashe Vernon
Nothing is housed in churches and temples and holy places that is not housed in you. (geryone)
The world needs women who can hold their own shadow and stay whole. Women who can hold their ambition without shame. Women who speak without running their words through the filter of 'is it nice'. -Hannah Fraser Moore
There are miracles in me waiting their turn to happen. I am never giving up on myself.
Everything time will not let you forget: pick them up, one by one, bring them into the light... then gently, with courage and love for all you have become, let them go. - Danielle Boodoo-Fortune
"You're going to be fine, you always are." Yes I will be. But please allow me a moment to express and display my sadness and discomfort. I know it will get better, but I need to also be honest and say my spirit is temporarily heavy and not have to hide that.
Someone said that self care is also choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you. I felt that.
Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgement. So the next time you look at someone's life covetously, remember... you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean's boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.
She dances with the spirit of the sun, loves with the strength of wild water, moves with the moods of the moon, and creates with the will of the winds. She is woman. by Brooke Hampton
Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
I was born with an open wound, and colors pouring from it. Don't call me brave or a martyr; I'm just a woman who learned to love even in the midst of pain. I am a brush, I am a scream, I am broken flesh and a burning spirit. I paint myself because I am the only thing I know with fury, with tenderness. And if anyone doesn't like it, don't look at me, because I didn't come to fit in, I came to be. Frida Kahlo
The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because hit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes. - Elizabeth Gilbert
They say nobody is coming to save you, but many people have saved me, even if they didn't intend to. It can be as small as a smile from a stranger, a nudge from an animal, words from a writer, the lyrics to a song, an observant friend. We are all saving each other every single day in tiny seemingly insignificant ways. @irisrosepoetry
You need both the light and the dark. One does not exist without the other. To sweep your darkness under the rug is to do yourself a great disserve. There is so much there to learn. How can you feel the freedom in the sun when you have not sat for a while under the shade of the trees? Surely you can learn to appreciate both. It is learning to accept and exist in each state. To appreciate and welcome each part of you without discrediting it. We are creatures of light and of dark. That is where strength and softness make a blood pact. -Brianna Pastor
My wrinkles are all from laughter. Except those lines between my eyebrows. Those are my "WTF" lines, and those things are deep.
I understand now that I'm not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often. I say, 'for the same reason I laugh so often - because I'm paying attention.' - Glennon Doyle
Those who can't manipulate you will call you "rebellious". Those who can't control you will call you "difficult". Those who can't abuse you will call you "unforgiving". Those who can't silence you will call you an "antagonist". Speak still Carlos A. Rodriguez
Bell Hooks talks about when she brought her anger to Thich Nhat Hanh: "And he, of course, Mr Calm himself, Mr Peace, said, ;well, you know, hold on to your anger, and use it as compost for your garden.'" She also said in reflection: "And I think that if we think of anger as compost, we think of it as energy that can be recycled in the direction of our good. It is an empowering force. If we don't think about it that way, it becomes a debilitating and destructive force."
Trouble makers are daughters who refuse to inherit the silence of their mothers. Trouble makers are women who speak up when culture threatens their existence. Trouble makers are the ones who suffer the pain of being labelled the bad woman. ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Rest without apology. Move gently. Name what's heavy. Say no. Once. Step outside. Look up. Give attention to what you love. Choose beauty on purpose.
There is only one thing more frightening than speaking your truth, and this is not speaking. - Audre Lorde
At the end of the day I undress, take the day off of my shoulders, unclip the love from my back, spread it out on the bed, and lay down on it. We have to remember to be gentle with ourselves. To say today I will love this part right here because yesterday it was hard for me. Key Ballah
Some of you don't even realize how you light up rooms, shift atmospheres and carry inspiration just by being you. A walking love lett and you don't even know it.
Remind your inner child that you don't have to be anything more than who you are in this very moment. Try this: gently put your hands over your heart and say, "I've got you. In this moment, right now, we are enough." - Dr Leah Katz
Your sensitivity is your strength. The way you feel, and love, your vulnerability and rawness - that is your power, your purpose. Marisa Donnelly
Celebrate not only who you've become, but the versions of you that clenched their fists, that howled instead of obeyed, that refused to become palatable, that spit out every lie dressed as love, that chose self over acceptance. From lovers, from families, from systems, and from rooms that you never quite fit into.
Every day I become more hopeless about the world and every day something small like a leaf falling saves me. @dumbsoftheart
A woman's magic comes alive when she stops trying to prove herself to others and believes herself eternally worthy. @saltofvenus
