Sublime

What makes you so special that you think that not only do we have to listen to you, we have to look at you as well?”

This willingness to write off huge swaths of humanity that are cast as lesser within supremacist narratives is the strongest glue that binds together the pastel-hued, self-loving world of women’s wellness with the fire-breathing, immigrant-bashing world of the Bannon right.

Our sense of worthiness—

Space is infinite and yet it is possible to be out of balance.

There are folks who, at great cost, just by insisting on existence and self-definition, have created more room for the rest of us to be expansive and self-determined in our identities and relationships. We owe a debt to those who have challenged the norms our culture has defined for us—norms that limit who we can be, how we present ourselves, how w

Her message to the audience is to inspire them to love themselves more and more fearlessly despite conditions that lead to lack of self-worth. “What I do is, in essence, create an atmosphere for my fans where they don’t leave loving me, they leave loving themselves,” she told MTV.

To confine the beauty and value of the body to anything less than this magnificence is to force the body to live without its rightful spirit, its rightful form, its right to exultation. To be thought ugly or unacceptable because one’s beauty is outside the current fashion is deeply wounding to the natural joy that belongs to the wild nature.

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These are people of personal courage and conviction, secure within themselves, willing to break convention, not reliant on the approval of others for their sense of self, people of deep and abiding empathy and compassion. They are what many of us might wish to be but not nearly enough of us are. Perhaps, once awakened, more of us will be.