Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
Finding my voice
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
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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To dedicate myself to forgetting myself.
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Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."
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I am wired to fear my own breaking free.
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’ve always been a tactile learner and lover of systems, and structures that help with application and retention
WePresent | Cosmically Speaking: An essay by Holly Murchison
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subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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An antidote to finding your purpose
“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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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