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I teach a flowing style of yoga in which one posture flows into the next. The transitions between postures are postures in their own right. The breath and the meditation are unbroken. This is not true in all styles of yoga, nor is such a flow necessary in order for a form of yoga to be effective. The lesson remains, however, that it is our tendency to pay attention to the postures themselves, but not to the spaces in between. So it is in life. We leave one relationship or job and set our sights on the next. We cross one item off the to-do list and dive into the next chore. The illusion is that the posture ends. The reality is that the posture never ends, it just shifts from one form to the next, one lesson to the next, one opportunity to the next. We remain life’s student whether we are inhaling or exhaling, in a relationship or out of one, saving the world or looking for a temp job. The posture never ends. I am in the posture when I look into my wife’s eyes, and I am in the posture when I look into my waiter’s eyes. Both are holy interactions. The illusion is that there is separation, levels of importance, beginnings and endings. Yoga brings us to the understanding that the posture never ends.

Rolf Gates & Katrina Kenison - Meditations from the Mat (via brightonontheweekend)

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I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on my own side.

Maya Angelou (via perfect)

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Marlen McKey Tattoo - Owl tattrx.com/artists/marlen-mckey

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buzzfeedbooks

A rundown of life in NYC.

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Beware the empty train car. It’s empty for a reason.

hoofbeatsheartbeats

Reblogging for later

mashable

Just because it’s out there in this infinite library doesn’t mean you have to look it up. You can choose to focus your efforts elsewhere. And every time you do so, you do your part to build a better, more civil Internet.

Chris Taylor, The Internet Is Learning to Avert Its Eyes (via mashable)

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You know you have to sell ya soul to the debbil to do shit like this right?

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Got damn

hoofbeatsheartbeats

It's my initial! Done so beautifully! Happy birthday to me!

kushandwisdom

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Need this!

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One of my favourites all healed up! Thanks again Stacey ✌️

hoofbeatsheartbeats

This is real pretty.

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In the 1880’s wild horses roamed Oregon state in the USA, and they were prized for their exceptionally good looks and long manes and tails, hence their being referred to as the ‘Oregon Wild Long-haired Wonder Horses.

hoofbeatsheartbeats

Whoa!!!!

soulrevision

You WILL want to watch this.

In the early morning hours on 8/16/2014 in Ferguson, MO, Greg Thomas spoke with VICE about Ferguson, structural racism, media bias and more!!!

Please reblog & signal boost so we can get this truth out!!

Greg Thomas can be found on twitter, here: Minossec

#Ferguson #MikeBrown

This is excellent

So so excellent.

no!!!!! This! Wow!

This bears repeating every day, but I’m especially feeling it today. http://best-of-imgur.tumblr.com

danielle-mertina

All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents then by the culture around them, that they must earn the right to be loved — that “femaleness” is not good enough. This is a female’s first lesson in the school of patriarchal thinking and values. She must earn love. She is not entitled. She must be good enough to be loved. And good is always defined by someone else, someone on the outside.

bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via daniellemertina)

coconutlimeverbena

Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.

"You’re not like other girls." Shut the fuck up. (via cutely-perverted)

ethiopienne

These are forms of male aggression that only women see. But even when men are afforded a front seat to harassment, they don’t always have the correct vantage point for recognizing the subtlety of its operation. Four years before the murders, I was sitting in a bar in Washington, D.C. with a male friend. Another young woman was alone at the bar when an older man scooted next to her. He was aggressive, wasted, and sitting too close, but she smiled curtly at his ramblings and laughed softly at his jokes as she patiently downed her drink. ‘Why is she humoring him?’ my friend asked me. ‘You would never do that.’ I was too embarrassed to say: ‘Because he looks scary’ and ‘I do it all the time.’ Women who have experienced this can recognize that placating these men is a rational choice, a form of self-defense to protect against setting off an aggressor. But to male bystanders, it often looks like a warm welcome, and that helps to shift blame in the public eye from the harasser and onto his target, who’s failed to respond with the type of masculine bravado that men more easily recognize.

Amanda Hess “Why it’s so hard for men to see misogyny” (via lavenderlavia)