Natalie Audelo

“beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests.”

Never stop looking for the offering of love that is buried inside every apparent nightmare. Never stop looking for the gift, the treasure, the beauty, the invitation for awakening and freedom.

Love is not always soft and snuggly, or soggy — love is sometimes ferocious with its power to roll you in the surf for a while and demand that you find your

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All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more

Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more