Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
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
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
Tilda Swinton on Collective Comfort | SXSW 2023
youtube.comlead the charge for faith in collective comfort – to remove the fantasy and pressure from an individualistic culture
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
“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
... See morewhen we stop rejecting who we are, there is freedom from the known. This freedom cultivates a space for a the meeting of who we truly are. The mind has to fall apart, for the heart to fall into place.
“I’m not a big believer in identity” ♥️
- Tilda Swinton
Full interview can be watched at SXSW on YT
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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
Holley M. Kholi-Murchison – Towards Satiety: Charting New...
videos.theconference.seTime to reconsider how we look at work. Holley's deep dive into this area highly resonates to that of my own path and questions I pose around what it means to feel fulfilled and authentic in the work that we do. She has come to know work as: "A lifelong devotion, to deliberation and transcendence of myself, my family and community, and society at large. What that contribution looks like shifts over time, and the action or inaction within that contribution can be grand gestures or small simple deeds - that's the beauty of it." She describes her current work resembling a manifesto: To honor self-acceptance as the antidote to the allure of external validation. To cherish and express my uninhibited creative expression and honour my weirdness, whether it makes me money or not. To share the unfolding of my story, the triumphs, the falls, the lifts, the climbs in artful, honest ways that challenge people to not turn away from themselves.
