7 short, impactful quotes

a place holder while I get it together

I have an essay on friendship that I had planned to publish two weeks ago, but.. I had to do some interview prepping (for a job) and wedding prepping (for my childhood best friend who got married this past weekend!)

The essay is pretty much complete; however, after writing my MOH speech, reciting it at the reception, and experiencing everything that I have over the process of writing it, it feels like I have more to sit with until I can hit publish.

I am drained from having to socialize non-stop for the past three days and will be in hibernation mode recharging my battery.

For this week, I’m going to just leave you with a few quotes from others in the archives that have moved me this month.

Would love to know if any of them hit you, and why.

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Quotes:

1. Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is the evidence that your imagination hasn’t given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention. Whispering, not this. —Glennon Doyle, Untamed

2. Where you are is not who you are. —Nayyirah Waheed

3. This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before. —Maya Angelou

4. The meaning of life is to just be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. —Alan Watts

5. I’m dealing with this conflict: what is this desire, to box up my relationship with God and tie with it a bow, to have it make complete sense to others? I imagine it is my ego’s itch to know where it stands, to see where it measures up to others. But in the moments when I am able to knock my ego down a peg, I feel a calmness in my soul and heart that can hold all my contradictions. 

   When I am fully immersed in a meditation, I can’t even bring myself to ask God for anything. —Sofia, Paths to God

6. The fear that we cannot grow beyond the distortions that we have in ourselves keeps us docile, loyal and obedient. Externally defined. And leads us to accept many facets of our oppression. —Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism

7. The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being hard. Since the beginning of time, darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purify right. —Lion Turtle from Avatar the Last Airbender