Something I’ve learned in these past few years is nothing is permanent but what you focus on.
If you have problems but focus on problems instead of solutions your problems multiply.
I see it in everything and everywhere I’ve been.
People with poor mindsets lead the worst lives.
This world is all a mindset.
Once you master your mind you master your life
Waarheid Unbuntu
And as frightening as it can be, that pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, .it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. It’s the greatest gift we have: to bear their pain without breaking. And it comes from the most human part of us: hope
— Professor Charles Xavier
Just because everything is Forgiven, doesn’t mean those experiences should be Forgotten. For what is Remembered is more likely not to be Repeated Again.
Mykell Hatcher-McLarin (Me)
To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If you know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does too: and if I can respect this, both of us can live
— James Baldwin
I want to live in a world where there isn’t a hierarchy of relationships, where romantic love isn’t assumed to be more important than other kinds, where folks can center any relationships they want whether it be their relationship to their spiritual practice, kids, lovers, friends, etc. and not have some notion that it’s more or less important because of who or what’s in focus. I want to feel like I can develop intimacy with people whether we are sleeping together or not that I will be cared for whether I am romantically involved with someone or not. I want a community that takes interdependency seriously that doesn’t assume that it’s only a familial or romantic relationship responsibility to be there for each other
Crunk Feminist Collective- Rose Arellano (via Kim Katrin Milan)
One of the most powerful and pervasive things about fear (false.evidence.appearing.real) is that it appears real. REAL. It will have you earnestly believing it to be true. That you don’t deserve happiness. That you don’t really have deep feelings for someone. That you shouldn’t leave one job for another. And the more you choose fear, the deeper these ‘beliefs’ become. They become habitual and second-nature. So deep that eventually fear replaces faith. And that’s dangerous and treacherous
Zerandrian S. Morris
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another
Toni Morrison
For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.
So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.This is your birth
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This is a combination effort of a picture someone I know shared (the center photo) surrounded by pictures I took of the fireworks on Friday ❤️ 🙂
I know we often want it happy and positive, but that’s just not where much of humanity is. Many of us are overwhelmed with pain, undigested sadness, unexpressed anger, unseen truths. This is where we are at, as a collective. So we have two choices. We can continue to pretend it’s not there, shame and shun it in ourselves and others, distract and detach whenever possible. Or we can face it heart-on, own it within ourselves, look for it in others with compassion, create a culture that is focused on authenticity and healthy emotional release. If we continue to push it all down, we are both creating illness and delaying our collective expansion. But if we can just own the shadow, express it, release it, love each other through it, we can finally graduate from the School of Heart Knocks and begin to enjoy this magnificent life as we were intended. Pretending the pain isn’t there just embeds it further. Let’s illuminate it instead
Jeff Brown
Confidence & Confessions 