Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Shame

"For a time I'd thought of that part of my life as wrong. But our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just preconstruction, that's all. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place."
~ Sue Monk Kidd


"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
~ George Bernard Shaw



"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."
~ Robin G. Collingwood

"I
woman give birth:
and this time to
myself."

 -- Alma Villanueva

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Wild Woman

Being squelched for loving beauty is possibly the worst thing you can do to a woman. It is not possible for her to have a full life if that is done to her, at her, for her.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Monday, July 30, 2012

Responsibility

“Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”

Perspective

“You need to stop your worrying and start believing in yourself.”

To Live

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Nicholas Cage

Passion

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
Nicolas Cage