Open To
An English poet, Philip Larkin, said that poetry doesn’t start with an idea; it starts with a poem…
You have to be open to mystery. If you are open to it, mystery will come.
If you’re not, why should it, actually?
–Lucille Clifton
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The Best Feeling
What We All Are
The Silent Killer
Everywhere I went rape was the silent killer. But it became quickly clear to me that these women were not just the collateral damage of war. Rape was a strategic, organized, scheme to destroy entire communities.
–Angelina Jolie on working with the U.N, from Glamour’s The Guardian Angels article.
Fannie Lou Hamer
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
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To Know
The only way to eliminate stress and pain is to stop doing the things
that create it
It is easy to see what others do to us while we forgot the drama
we create for ourselves
How?
Take your pick:
The need to be right
Lack of life purpose
How we think others see you
Trying to fix the world
Dishonesty with self and others
Accepting someone else’s truth
Seeking material wealth over spiritual values
Doing it alone
My way is the right way
Fear of the future
Negative thought patterns
Trying to prove yourself to others
Anger over the past
Telling other people what to do.
It all boils down to “not knowing who we are.”
–Iyanla Vanzant, Acts Of Faith
Healing
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. –Maya Angelou
Strong Woman
A STRONG WOMAN
LOVES, FORGIVES,
WALKS AWAY, LETS GO,
TRIES AGAIN, AND PERSEVERES–
NO MATTER WHAT LIFE THROWS AT HER.
Drums
Drums don’t beat. Hearts do. Hearts can’t break. Bones do. Bones don’t bend. Rivers do. Rivers don’t judge. People do. People don’t know how much I love you.
I do.
Hurricane
I love you like a hurricane
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