When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

~ Rumi

From doubt to certainty and back again-
from lost to found I flow with my thoughts like a river's current takes a wren.
busy to vacant, focused to distracted,
indifferent to enraged
excited to scared,
driven to aimless
active yet now inert.

For women who are difficult to love

https://warsanshire.bandcamp.com/track/for-women-who-are-difficult-to-love-the-affirmation

My aspirations....

Q: How do you define 'success'?
A "Being content with what you have."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at the work worth doing"

Theodore Roosevelt.

‘The butterfly effect is a small action in one part of the world that can start a chain reaction leading to big changes everywhere. The more of us working together, the more the potential for change. Time to spread our wings…’ (Green, 2008, p.62)

If we're going to heal, let it be glorious.

Abrazar en la cultura maya

Abrazar a una persona es como fundirnos en un abrazo de amor con la totalidad del cosmos.

yo soy tu y tu eres yo.

Reverence

deep respect for someone or something.

'The irresponsible freedom to constantly change one's mind.'

Malala writes to Miley Cyrus

http://www.famousfix.com/videos?v=-dUvTeB2jgk

I need to put this on paper to remember this feeling. I don't want this year to end. This has been one of the best years of my life and my heart is beginning to break realising it's coming to an end.

“Life without examination is no life” 

Plato

“To decry injustice and refuse to act strikes me as a cowardly stance. It is my chief criticism of many scholars who, whether they derive their critiques from feminist, postcolonial, or critical race theory, rail against injustice but only from within the protected rooms of their academy and the quiet pages of journals."

Brydon-Miller, Mary, (2003) 

“It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiralling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember, remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when separate journeys converge.” 

McDury and Alterio

“Stories allows us to glimpse the worlds of others and come to know our own world more fully.”

"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love and it will decide everything."


-Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ

The quieter you become, 
the more you are able to hear.

Rumi

"We strive to change the world - there is nothing more dangerous than that, and we must take responsibility for the possibility of risk inherent in this commitment to change."

Rydon Miller. Ethics and Action Research 

"Listen to yourself, and in that quietude, you might hear the voice of God."

Maya Angelou