Absolute freedom

Awakening to ourselves

"Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any other abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."

~ Thoreau

It's okay

"The first foundation of mindfulness – to become wise – is to live in the physical reality of our body, to live in feelings, to be aware of emotions, to be aware of the pleasant and neutral and unpleasant aspect of our experience, and to learn that we don't have to resist that which is painful and grasp that which is pleasant all the time.”

-Jack Kornfield

Love yourself well

"when the time comes
to love yourself well
it takes a good solid month
to stop crying
about everything
you have to let go"

-Andrea Gibson

Faith in the mystery of being human

"Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times, the Satyagrahi [person deeply committed to nonviolence] is ready to trust him the twenty-first time, for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed."

-Gandhi

Go deeper into the wild

"One of the great disservices a culture of domination has done to all of us is to confuse the erotic with domination and violence. The God is wild, but his is the wildness of connection, not of domination. Wildness is not the same as violence. Gentleness and tenderness do not translate into wimpiness. When men — or women, for that matter — begin to unleash what is untamed in us, we need to remember that the first images and impulses we encounter will often be the stereotyped paths of power we have learned in a culture of domination. To become truly wild, we must not be sidetracked by the dramas of power-over, the seduction of addictions, or the thrill of control. We must go deeper."

-Starhawk