Feel Injustice With All Your Senses in Order to Know.
The moment you see something with your own eyes and feel injustice with all your senses, you cross an inner border, you know you can’t go back from there.
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Sometimes You Are Orange: A Love Letter to My Best Friend. {spoken word poetry}
Your prescription bottles
And prescription glasses are both autumn orange.
I wonder if it’s difficult to discern
which one changes the way you see the world
Bring Attention to and Magnify Your Own Pleasure.
Your willingness to bring attention to and magnify your own pleasure, no matter how small, is a radical act of self-nourishment.
How Much Attention Do You Need?
I feel a faith that the right people at the right time will feel this deep truth inside me and seek me out. It requires no attention at all.
Zanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus from a Legendary Samurai Archer.
'Zanshin' is a word used commonly throughout Japanese martial arts to refer to a state of relaxed alertness. Literally translated, 'zanshin' means 'the mind with no remainder'. In other words, the mind completely focused on action and fixated on the task at hand. 'Zanshin' is being constantly ...
What I Wanna Tell You When You Say ‘Get Over It’. {poetry}
You think I should just move on, or stop talking. I'm talking for all the children who don't have a voice. And all the babies who feel horrified at their own face, reflected back at them by parents who don't know how to love. And this is a prayer that every single abused child gets to have ...
Pay Attention to What’s Inside, and Create More Time.
When you focus your attention relentlessly on a future that hasn't been lived yet, you are turning an indifferent critical back on your current needs. There is nothing more satisfying than paying attention to the feeling that is holding an inner conversation with us right now. For that, we ...
Listening: A Way Of Gifting Your Own Heart With Undivided Attention.
The catalyst of rejection is life’s way of reminding you how other people are not always created to treat you better than you treat yourself. Instead, they help you practice treating yourself better by how lovingly you interact with them.
I Have A Body, And It Is Damn Good.
The girl who at age 16 let her body be used by the youth pastor of her church, praying it was love, like he promised. Then when the ruse was up, she desperately tried to hide away the thing that drew him to her, her youthful gorgeousness, by eating tons of junk.
Excavating And Exorcising: To Find Yourself.
People hold a mirror to the self like nothing else can, I think. I found things I wanted to change because I wanted to change them in others. I found brutal honesty hurt me in the moment but was necessary in the long run. Lately I’ve tried not to sugarcoat my thoughts too much. People-pleasing ...