Quotes 💗

Our bodies are incredibly sophisticated truth-detection machines. - Martha Beck

“People are trying to guess about your future potential, based on your past trajectory. […] If you don’t provide your own chronicle of who you are, one will be given to you. You’ll assume whatever description the other party gives you, dictated by their biases, perceptions and attributions. Don’t passively let others dictate your narrative, write

The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;

(portion of poem)
Saint

Today by Maya Luna

Today I gave up

On healing my trauma

I gave up

On practicing the skills

To become whole

Today I gave up

On evolving

Into that ever elusive

Better version of myself

Today I submitted

To the wound of love

I stopped pointing at it

Looking at it

Soothing it

Tweaking it

Fixing it

Finessing it

Hiding it

Polishing it

I stopped this game of separation

I

Your Personal Brand includes both your personal and professional identity. It also includes both online and offline communication, as well as both explicit and implicit communication. We FILTER what we share in each situation depending on the context and the audience. - Dr Andrea Wojnicki

The human brain isn't wired to thrive on effortless living, it's wired to grow through friction,” says Riky Hanaumi, clinical director at the US mental health group Quadrant Health. “I see this every day in therapy: when people remove all discomfort from their lives, they don't become calmer, they become emptier. Struggle, when it's meaningful,

As the Buddha is said to have explained to a disciple:

“You are one of those gems, and every person, every animal, every tree and plant, every insect, every speck of dust that floats up into a sunbeam and down onto a road, is a gem of the net of Indra. Every emotion that you feel, and all the feelings that all beings have ever felt, even thousands