Hmmm
How I litmus test my decisions:
Am I deciding to be myself and follow what I want, or am I deciding to try to manage the future?
If it’s the latter, I don’t take the action.
As poet Brandon Wint wrote in a much-quoted social media post several years ago, “Not queer like gay; queer like escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness all at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like, and to pursue it.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
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bell hooks
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bell hooks
A quote by bell hooks
95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.
You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
Wisdom: the ability to drop all perspectives; to go beyond whatever perspective you are currently in or holding
Love: the capacity to see the world from another’s perspective
Power: the ability to get others to see from your perspective
Daniel Thorson, on Daniel Kazandjian’s podcast. He was speaking on the three trainings at MAPLE.
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if your sexual desire is a subset of an overall lust for life, it's much, much more likely to be perceived as attractive
if your sexual desire is disproportionate to your lust for life, it becomes a source of offputting, gollum like craving, extremely unattractive