It's just incredible to think that we can make any sounds that can reach over across to each other at all. Because I mean, I think the beauty of being human is that we're incredibly, intimately near each other. We know about each other, but yet we do not know or never can know what it's like inside another person. And it's amazing, you know, here am I sitting in front of you now, looking at your face, you're looking at mine and yet neither of us have ever seen our own faces. And that in some way, thought is the face that we put on the meaning that we feel and that we struggle with and that the world is always larger and more intense and stranger than our best thought will ever reach. And that's the mystery of poetry, you know, is poetry tries to draw alongside the mystery as it's emerging and somehow bring it into presence and into birth.
John O'Donohue
Speak words
as if you bleed them;
after all it is fire which
warms the body,
not air.
Light your wounds
on fire.
Maza-Dohta
The visible world is the first shoreline of the invisible world. And the same way I believe with the body and the soul. That actually the the body is in the soul, not the soul just in the body. And that in some way the poignance of being a human being is that you are the place where the invisible becomes visible and expressive in some way.
John O'Donohue
It's really quite absurd the lengths we go to to run from our emotions. Because you can't escape something that's inside of you. You can't outrun it when you're carrying it. You can numb and starve and bury and drown what you're feeling, but those emotions don't go away. In fact it's often the case that whilst we ignore them they only grow and multiply. We suppress them in one way only to have them manifest in another. There is only one way to get rid of emotions and that is to express them. Speak, scream, shout - whatever it takes. Let it out and let it go. Free your mind. Free your body. Free your soul.
The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving of ways.
Unknown
When you hide feelings inside yourself, you start seeing them in other people.
Gay Hendricks
Yes, positive thinking is good for us. Yes, living life from a high vibration is important for our own sake and for the sake of the world around us. However, when we’re going through a tough time, the absolute worst thing we can do for ourselves is to deny our true feelings. All because we’re fearful of thinking a negative thought.
Jess Ainscough
Society gets set up in a way that there are the creative people and the noncreative people, but everybody has access to the creative force. You might express it in a way that's very different from how people think you should do it, but I really encourage people to find that voice. To me, everybody is like a fragment of the Divine. That's what I try to put out there, even though certain fragments of the Divine that I want to fucking shoot...