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wisdom & inspiration from all kinds of sages

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The practices are not complicated.

The practices are not complicated. The body is not complicated. What is complicated is the willingness to trust something simple when the world keeps insisting that the solution must be as difficult as the problem.

It is not. It rarely is. --Ro Marlen

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And naming it matters, because language shapes perception, and perception shapes physiology. When you have the right words, your system can finally rest from defending itself against a false narrative. --Muse

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Complete these three sentences: I want more of... I want less of... I'm willing to change... Write them down. Say them out loud. --Ellen Scherr

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You cannot pay off a debt that was never real in the first place. --Ellen Scherr

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Blessing is not just the act of wishing something good for someone else. In a true blessing what was hidden is made visible, what could not be said is said, even if it is by another witnessing presence. --David Whyte

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It serves nobody but the powerful to believe there’s nothing we can do to change things. There is always something we can do. We can never do everything, but we can always do something. There’s no good reason not to do that something we can do, every single day of our lives. --Caitlin Johnstone

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Believing that you are powerless serves no one but the powerful.

--Caitlin Johnstone

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They say we are disturbing the peace, but there is NO PEACE. What really bothers them is that we are DISTURBING THE WAR. -Howard Zinn

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I want to celebrate my limits. I want to be honest about them. I want to build my life around them instead of trying to overcome them. -Britchida

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If you're controlling women to "protect" them from men's violence, instead of calling out men for perpetrating that violence--then you aren't protecting women. You're protecting patriarchy.

--Farida D.

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I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me...the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. --Anais Nin

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Recover loudly, to keep others from dying quietly. --Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. --Georgia O'Keefe

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Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together--communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skilled. Then make love to enjoy them.

--Margot Anand

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Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds, and seeing no immediate solution...they will kill that which in them, the condemning sense of guilt.

--Richard Wright

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It is not your responsibility to alleviate anyone else's guilt. As Audre Lorde said, guilt is "the beginning of knowledge." Do not spare them the mirror. Let them learn.

--Cole Arthur Riley

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Friend, do not enter this dance floor if you do not want to do this sacred dance. Everyone here is losing their minds so they can remember their souls. and the only music playing is Love.

--Jaiya Johh, Fragrance After the Rain