“trust your body
it reacts to right and wrong
better than your mind does
it is speaking to you”
— Rupi Kaur
Trust Your Body
Aphorisms on Kindness
“We can be kind and successful, kind and exciting, kind and wealthy and kind and potent. Kindness is a virtue awaiting our rediscovery and our renewed, un-conflicted appreciation.”
– Aphorisms on Kindness
One’s Own World
“To create one’s own world takes courage.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
Anger
“anger. is often grief that has been silent for too long.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
“Every time someone in a group of people deploys a screen, the whole group is affected. Each disengaged person in a crowd is like a little black hole, a dead zone for social energy, radiating a noticeable field of apathy towards the rest of the room and what’s happening there.”
Read the full post: The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
(via Hurry Slowly)
The Fear of Being You
what about this theory. the fear of not being enough. and the fear of being 'too much.' are exactly the same fear. the fear of being you.
— .. (@nayyirahwaheed) November 16, 2018
Relationship with Others
“If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you, mirrored.”
— Osho
Mountains
“Now, every time I witness
a strong person,
I want to know:
What card did you conquer
in your story?
Mountains do not rise
without earthquakes.”
— Katherine Mackenett
Essential
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your Heart. Growing.
that feeling. that you can not name.
that. is your heart. growing.
– Nayyirah Waheed
Renewal
“The story of renewal is about letting the light in and also being willing to sit in the dark.”
– Keith Yamashita
A Humanistic Enterprise
“I believe in a humanistic enterprise: business should comply in the noblest manner with all the rules of ethics that man has devised over the centuries. I dream about a form of humanistic modern capitalism with strong ancient roots, where profit is made without harm or offence to anyone, and part of it is set aside for any initiative that can really improve the condition of human life: services, schools, places of worship and cultural heritage.”
(via Jason)
Purpose of Capitalism
“The purpose of capitalism is to allow our society to become better. A culture that opens doors for and nurtures the people we care about.
The issues of our time are education, corruption, access, infrastructure, civility and the downstream effects of the work we do.”
Kindness
“Err in the direction of kindness.”
— George Saunders
A Feeling of Discomfort
“Anytime one ventures into new territory there is a feeling of discomfort/uneasiness. That is how you will know that you are evolving. If you were comfortable you would be in a rut and that is no place for enlightened being.”
— Debbra Lupen
From the book Akasha Unleashed
Grief
“I have learned that Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.
The only way that I can “handle” Grief, then, is the same way that I “handle” Love — by not “handling” it. By bowing down before its power, in complete humility.
When Grief comes to visit me, it’s like being visited by a tsunami. I am given just enough warning to say, “Oh my god, this is happening RIGHT NOW,” and then I drop to the floor on my knees and let it rock me. How do you survive the tsunami of Grief? By being willing to experience it, without resistance.”
Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
The Way You Live
“Attract them by the way you live.”
– Saint Augustine
Chiune Sugihara and Moral Heroism
“Day and night he wrote visas. He issued as many visas in a day as would normally be issued in a month. His wife, Yukiko, massaged his hands at night, aching from the constant effort. When Japan finally closed down the embassy in September 1940, he took the stationery with him and continued to write visas that had no legal standing but worked because of the seal of the government and his name. At least 6,000 visas were issued for people to travel through Japan to other destinations, and in many cases entire families traveled on a single visa. It has been estimated that over 40,000 people are alive today because of this one man.”
Nobody-But-Yourself
“A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
Enormous Smallness: The Sweet Illustrated Story of E. E. Cummings and His Creative Bravery
Just Help
“Don’t be fancy, just help people.”
– Glennon Doyle
Surfing Life Force
“Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.”
– Danielle LaPorte
Your Relationship
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
This hit home.
Power
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
– Fredrick Douglass