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#ImaginationTuesdays

we are more that we've been told we are more than we think we are decide then how to be #ImaginationTuesdays

begin where you are

begin where you are. begin where the silence threatens to cut through your heart. begin where the laughter curves into anguish & at the edges of your lips are caricatures of dreams. begin where you are. begin where your mother said goodbye & your father turned his face from you. begin where you are. begin where the morning sunshine thaws your evening heartache. begin where you are. begin when the baby released her finger from your grasp as you wished she'd stay a little longer. begin where you are. begin where the ideas of tomorrow dust the tears of yesterday. begin where you are. begin where you are most broken, for in that moment, is where joy most resides.

queerwoc

A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children’s mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours *** For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother’s milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. *** And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid. *** So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.

Audre Lorde (via queerwoc)

"The spiritual path is not a matter of growing more metaphysically complicated; it's a process where we actually grow simpler and simpler, as we apply certain basic principles to everything we go through. We don't learn love, which is already etched on our hearts; we do, however, begin to unlearn fear. And with every change we make from blame to blessing, we pierce the veil of illusion that separates us from the world we want." ~Marianne Williamson

theredtree

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else. We can give ourselves the unconditional love that is the grounding for sustained acceptance and affirmation. When we give this precious gift to ourselves, we are able to reach out to others from a place of fulfillment and not from a place of lack.

— —bell hooks (via theredtree)

sacredwoman

ajna-aakhu

PUSHING AHEAD AT THE USUAL FAST PACE WHILE MENSTRUATING: Approaching life in a masculine, goal-oriented way is depleting and not required of us – it’s just a habit. Pushing yourself in moon time, like it’s no different to any other day, is exhausting and sets up a subconscious message to...

eunoiaspirit

Chakra affirmations

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Now is the season to know that everything you do is sacred.

Hafiz (via ashramof1)

interruptmag-blog

By 13 years-old 53% of girls say they are unhappy with their bodies. When were we happy? Marie C. photographed and interviewed 4-8 year old girls and asked them what they liked about their bodies to find out.

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Because it is magic. Awwwwwwww

"Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy." -- Pema Chödrön

queerintersectional

I do have to denounce this hegemonic feminist discourse that promotes success without questioning the very context in which said success is supposed to take place. I do have to protest the increasing promotion of corporate participation as a measure of “feminist achievement” and women’s prosperity. Because for as long as we do not question at whose expense we are succeeding, we are going to continue creating a deeper gap between those women who are allowed to succeed and those who never stood a chance to begin with. We are not meant to have it all in our current set up. Moreover, we are supposed to always aspire to more. This is a model based on some nonsensical idea of permanent growth and the exploitation of more and more resources and people to uphold it. The perversity of it all is that we hardly have the chance to even consider alternatives. Who has the luxury of time for debate or political/ social organization when it is necessary to work two jobs, take care of children, family, social life and some scarce leisure time in order to barely survive? We cannot have it all, in part, because we are forced to participate in the illusion that we can have it all. And a growing portion of feminism has taken to the sidelines, in this role of reactive respondent to the news cycle, barely fighting so that what we have so far achieved cannot be taken away.

Flavia Dzodan, ’We cannot have it all because we no longer have dreams’ http://tigerbeatdown.com/2012/06/27/we-cannot-have-it-all-because-we-no-longer-have-dreams/ (via queerintersectional)

onlinecounsellingcollege

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Nicholas Sparks (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.” — bell hooks

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