Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?

It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

This beast can feel such things?

What is it?

Would we crave peace
If we knew what it was.

Know that what usually looks like the end of the world is simply a tough road to someplace better and brighter.

The hurt is how we know
We are alive & awake;
It clears for us all the exquisite,
Excruciating enormities to come.
We are pierced new by the turning
Forward.

As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with

Fundamentally supremacism means doing anything to keep one’s soul conceit, even if it means losing one’s soul.

It means not wearing the mask that would save you, because it would mean taking off one’s privilege.

It means always choosing poisonous pride over preservation,
pride over nation,
pride over anyone or anything.

This realization is not ours.

It is.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God’s awareness of your situation.

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already.

I think it’s important to talk about things that people might not want to talk about.

You can never make America great again. All you ever did was make this country hate again.

I wanted to reverse stereotypes.

CALL US
Grant us this day
Bruising the make of us.
At times over half of our bodies
Are not our own,
Our persons made vessel
For non-human cells. To them we are
A boat of a being,
Essential.
A country,
A continent,
A planet.
A human
Microbiome is all the writhing forms on & inside this body
Drafted under our life.
We are not me — We are we.
Call us
What we carry.

What is now dust will not return,
not the beloveds
nor their breath,
nor the sugar-crumbling glaciers,
nor the crows chewing
on their own soured song,
nor all the species
slashed
down
in one smogged swoop.

We wrap our arms around ourselves, as if we can possibly hold the whole of who we are within us — everything that makes us this unearthly speck we are.

Meaning, we cannot stand up to police
If we cannot cease policing our imagination,
Convincing our communities that this won’t work,
When the work hasn’t even begun,
That this can wait,
When we’ve already waited out a thousand suns.
By now, we understand
That white supremacy & the despair it demands
Are as destructive as any disease.

The most destructive relationships are the ones built on shared trauma, mutual degeneracy, and competing scars.

Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.

Every day of your life is a miracle, every moment is a miracle. You can take life for granted. You can focus on all your shortcomings, all your pains and trials, but even then, it is a miracle that these things even exist.

You don’t have to wait for a wakeup call to begin to live in the present.

The Universe creates a series of miracles just for us to be alive today, and we’re not even aware of that! If you were born in this lifetime, it is with a very precise purpose, and don’t you take this life for granted for a second!

There is opportunity in every new day – sometimes it is wrapped as a problem. Stay aware and you will see.

I know God has a plan for me. I don’t know what it is.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters…

I saw her walk in out of the corner of my eye. Why do they say “corner of the eye”? Eyes have no corners.

Often the best parts of life were when you weren’t doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can’t be quite senseless because you are aware that it’s senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? And optimistic pessimism.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Is butter a carb?

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Fun fact: Alcohol increases the size of the ‘send’ button by 89%.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Shigure Sohma: My God man, you’re dense!! You’re as dense as an ogre! Dense as lead! If a tack is sharp, you’re the thing farthest

Yuki Sohma: The truth is, in the back of my mind, I probably knew what would happen. How life would change if I opened the

Start the day with prayers. Live the day with effort. End the day with gratitude. Be aware of God’s presence in your heart at all times. Have a good morning, and know I am thinking of you.

Neela: You know, I almost didn’t recognize you without your slippers on.
Shawn Boswell: Don’t you mean uwabaki?

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

I realize how precious life is, probably because I’ve seen how it can be taken away.

Life is a gift. Wake up every day and realize that.

All she really wanted to do was sleep, but it seemed her awareness level was operating at peak efficiency, for some reason.

When a blind man says, ‘God is good,’ this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

Brian: I got a name. David Park.
Agent Ben Stasiak: That’s it? A name? I could throw a fortune cookie and it will go through the window of 50 David Parks.
FBI Agent #1: It’s Korean. Not Chinese.

Don’t let nobody know that you are a monster. Keep it on the tuck and then surprise ’em.

You stay up until 3am – the time when the fine lines start to get blurry. You found yourself standing on the edge. You think you’re not supposed to be there so you jumped and crossed the line. You’ve come to a place where the voices are much louder…where the words are much clearer. It’s a place where the harmless things hurt you. It is where you wonder why the sea-like decisions you’ve made and the copper-like smiles has led you to loathe yourself. You wonder why your skin suddenly craves the feeling of metal. You laugh. Because it’s 3am- the time when salts and metals come together… the time when tears and blood embrace.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

I want to make music that has a message behind it.

Don’t let them fool ya, or even try to school ya.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

It’s said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.

SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don’t realize it, then you’re finished.

There are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than too late.

I know what a park bench is and the landlord’s knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn’t be trying to go anywhere else.

If you could know the perfection of time and space.

You would slow each moment down.

To drain every possible nuance of juice and flavor from it.

When you leave this place, your body and mind and the earth which holds you, you will look back and only wish you had known the immense richness that you hurried through trying to find other better states of being.

But this is the best bite.

Heaven is here.

Nirvana is now.

As soon as you know that for sure,

Your life will never be the same again.

In fact, in every way, it seeks to get your attention. It begs you to awaken to the magic right before your eyes.

I sense the Dragon Warrior is among us.

A real driver knows exactly what’s in his car.

You can increase your awareness by effective education combined with professional coaching over a reasonable period of time. Let there be light. Let there be a higher degree of consciousness.

The mental awareness of prosperity always precedes wealth in your material world.

You can’t escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their old beliefs continue to have the same experiences. It takes effort and commitment to break old patterns.

The moment your belief matches with any state, you fuse with it, and this union results in the activation and projection of its plots, plans, conditions and circumstances.

This new state of conscious awareness becomes your home from which you view the world.

It is your workshop, and, if you are observant, you will see outer reality shaping itself upon the model of your imagination.

Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don’t have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.

Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you’re getting. That will tell you exactly what’s going on inside.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

I liked to imagine her looking down on us, still aware of us, but it seemed like a fantasy and I never really felt it – just as the Colonel had said at the funeral that she wasn’t there, wasn’t anywhere. I couldn’t honestly imagine her as anything but dead, her body rotting in Vine Station, the rest of her just a ghost alive only in our remembering.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don’t, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God’s carefully orchestrated plan for your life.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

You’re stronger than you know.

It’s actually beautiful that we’re aware of this superpower that we have where we’re just us, no matter what. We don’t get nervous in front of people. We look in the mirror and we’re okay with it.

Know when things get tough that all things work out for the best of them who know and love Him. Know that God is in charge.

A good driver will maintain a circle of awareness of everything happening around them.

A truck driver always know how far he is from home. No matter where he is at.

By increasing our awareness. We invite more of ourselves to the party.

Know what is happening around you. Be in control of what is happening within you.

We are where we are because we are not aware of how to do it better.

Start setting “effective” goals that will inspire you and expand your level of conscious awareness… This higher awareness will automatically shift your perception of who you truly are and what you’re capable of doing.

Then, couple that awareness with imagination and action, and you’re on your way to real GROWTH and FREEDOM!

As you grow in awareness, your change in mindset may separate you from those around you.

Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us … we are meant to control the economy.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Hand writing causes thinking – the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. Choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.

Purpose is like an anchor for our awareness.

My favorite thing about being a dump truck driver is knowing where all the potholes are on Main Street.

Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

You know what you are. What you’re made of. War is in your blood. Don’t fight it. You didn’t kill for your country. You killed for yourself. The gods are never gonna make that go away. When you’re pushed, killing’s as easy as breathing.

Perhaps it’s something other than insomnia, to lie listening to children yelling as if they’ve re-created light; to try to dream, but succeed only in remembering; to toss and sweat in a dirty paste of sheets, while the drone of a ball game is gradually replaced by the buzz of a fly — a fly buzzing like the empty frequencies between stations as its shadow grows enormous between the shade and windowpane. Is it insomnia for a man to wad his ears with the cotton from a pill bottle, to mask his eyes with blinders, and press a stale pillow over his head, praying for another day to burn down, so he can wake into another night?

Whenever I feel myself sinking into a deep sleep, something always recalls me: “Not so fast now. Suppose you should go to sleep and it should happen. What then?” Clearly nothing. Yet there I lie, wakeful and watchful as a sentry, ears tuned to the slightest noise.

Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.

I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn’t he?

Whatever the endings, closure does not foreclose awareness but instead opens it—to suffering, to acceptance, to reconstruction, but always to the story of what was, is, and might be.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.