Finding my voice

gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.

a reminder and an intention.

Your lifestyle is your art. That is how you focus on being and not making.

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."

Seks Bakery & Eatery

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How exhausting it is to deny one’s own nature.

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

“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 prefer floors from chairs, window sills from desks. It's all very symbolic.

when 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.