Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
by lili · updated 23d ago
Finding my voice
- As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path... See more
from Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life by Farnam Street
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“I believe that I am loved beyond measure by a magnificent, complex, amused God who has given me power over practically nothing.”
“Writing gave me the thing that meditation promised, but I could never have it happen in meditation until very recently where time stops or changes, and I’m here but not here.”
“What if I’m not on duty all the time? What i
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- I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more
from Forty Years, Forty Lessons by Zoe Scaman
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Tilda Swinton on Collective Comfort | SXSW 2023
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lead the charge for faith in collective comfort – to remove the fantasy and pressure from an individualistic culture
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TS talking about the pressure of claiming ‘one’ identity, and the liberation that can come with riding all the different landscapes we get taken on
we are morphing all the time
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- I prefer floors from chairs, window sills from desks. It's all very symbolic.
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- subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
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