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Clarity...
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...
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Kindness...
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
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Small steps...
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Bloom <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 |
Growth...
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Beautiful...
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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
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"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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Whole...
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 |
Self-care...
“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.” ―Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Uncommon...
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') |
Expression...
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') |
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