Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
Finding my voice
“I’m not a big believer in identity” ♥️
- Tilda Swinton
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instagram.comTS talking about the pressure of claiming ‘one’ identity, and the liberation that can come with riding all the different landscapes we get taken on
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
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
As an individual, get really good at being intentional with where you put your energy, letting go as quickly as you can of things that aren’t part of your visionary life’s work. Then you can give your all, from a well-resourced place, when the storm comes, or for those last crucial miles.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Molly Mielke
mollymielke.comshe’s great
An antidote to finding your purpose
Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
’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
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