prompt 1567

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

                                        ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.”

— Amma

“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened—at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Itacoatiara.

Kodak ColorPlus 200

Niterói, Brazil

November, 2017

As a fashion design major Eartha Kitt inspired me to create this design. So far it’s a headscarf & dress but I’m doing menswear too. I really want to take this further! Representation matters, pls celebrate black women while we’re still alive 💜✊🏾

IG: mayashawty

✨When I touch my crown, I feel my heart.✨

✨When I feel my heart, I feel source.✨

✨When I feel source, I feel myself.✨

✨When I feel myself, I am home.✨

✨When I feel home, I feel complete.✨

✨When I feel complete, I feel abundant.✨

✨Abundance is my divine nature. ✨

Feelings

attraction.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

— Carl Jung

Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

Osho (via aspiritualwarrior)

one of the most profound statements I have ever read.

my heart longs for this moment as I search for an earthly being that resonates with my spiritual feelings 

..but it didn’t matter, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

this moment.

Intimacy, 2019

warm inquiry

when I hear House, 

I

feel the Heart

what is it about House that brings out the sensuality, creativity, that passionate sacral energy inside of me?

Go.

This really opened up my entire heart, self-quarantining and CHAKA KHAN is the only way!!

blessing the dash with the one and only

Golden

Vintage 1970s Black Stars Magazine Covers 

Poesia 006

FORÇADO NÃO MAIS

livre como um pássaro 

liberdade, vai!