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It's all art. The way you laugh. Your smile. Your wardrobe. The way you decorate your home. The way you dance. Your energy. Your collection of books. The way you write. Your playlists. Your grocery lists. Your friendships. It's all art. Your whole life is art.

#art #wardrobe #home #decorate #dance #books #write #playlists #friendship

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Having someone express care for or attraction toward us can be enormously triggering when we've been conditioned to believe we're not worthy of positive attention--or that "positive" attention is just a setup to take advantage of us. Easy does it. Slow things down inside.

--Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

#Glenn Patrick Doyle #care #attraction #trigger #positive attention #take advantage #unworthy #slow

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When someone says, "after all I've done for you..." they are revealing that what they did for you was not for you at all, but for their own need to control you. Their generosity was just a contract with hidden terms of compliance. Breach that contract, and you become the problem. --Wade Mullen

#Wade Mullen #control #generosity #contract #compliance #indebtedness

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"You and your partner are not only having a dance, a dance is having you. Both." — Steve Paxton, 1939-2024

#Steve Paxton #partner #dance

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The boundary you fear setting the most marks the border between freedom and bondage. --Cole Arthur Riley

#cole arthur riley #boundary #fear #border #freedom #bondage

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"You and your partner are not only having a dance, a dance is having you. Both." — Steve Paxton, 1939-2024

#Steve Paxton #Contact Improv #partner #dance

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Coming home to the body/becoming home within the body is nonlinear. We are past/present/future all at once and all together. We are of the earth; our bones are made of minerals and stardust; we share breath with the trees and every growing green thing. The body holds stories that can help us come back to the ground, to ground as a verb, to get a little softer, a little quieter, so we might remember how to listen to what the body is always whispering to us: We are always held. We are never alone.

#Abigail Rose Clark #Returning Home to Our Bodies #body #home #nonlinear #earth #stardust #breath #trees #soft #quiet #held #alone

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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#dietrich bonhoeffer #love #dream #community #destroy #create

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Everything is connected. Everything changes. Pay attention. ~Jane Hirshfield

#jane hirshfield #everything #connected #changes #attention

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Everything is connected. Everything changes. Pay attention. ~Jane Hirshfield

#jane hirshfield #everything #connected #changes #attention

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You can't really claim the level of self liberation you desire while being attached to managing other people's perceptions of you. The hardest part of the journey of self liberation is to liberate others...and to allow them to perceive you in the ways they choose to, even when it doesn't reflect accurately who you know yourself to be.

--Xavier Dagba

#xavier dagba #self liberation #perception #liberate

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"The writer Philip Pullman once said poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magical spell. It changes things; it changes you. I come to you in the midst of the fires of hate with the sincere belief that we can be forged into something more beautiful on the other side. That doesn’t make me an optimist – it makes me a poet. And to be a poet is to resurrect dead things – like hope. To be a poet is to be an ambassador for humanity in a society with an allergic reaction to itself. To be a poet is to notice the quiet magic that sustains life. Is to tune each word to the hum of it. Find majesty and magnificence in the muck. Poetry is not merely a genre of literature, it is a mode of living. Something we can all do if we allow ourselves to be beautiful. So won’t you please, allow yourself to be beautiful.” --Alok Vaid-Menon

#alok #poetry #fancy #change #poet #beautiful #optimist #ambassador #magic #magnificence #muck #genre #literature #living

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It will not take light years to get there. The dark years work too. Sometimes grief is the fastest route to truth. -Andrea Gibson

#andrea gibson #years #light #dark #grief #route #truth

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Be brave enough to make art nobody loves but you. -Andrea Gibson

#andrea gibson #brave #art #love

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Release the belief that you're only valuable to others when you're holding space for them. TAKE UP SPACE, TOO. Share your ideas, your emotions, your voice. If they don't like that, they never wanted you--they wanted a mirror. And you were made for more than just reflecting.

--Hailey Paige Magee

#hailey paige magee #release #belief #valuable #others #space #hold #take #share #ideas #emotions #voice #mirror

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The road to happiness is made of a thousand pivots. It is not that you are brave for one, daring moment, but that you learn to live at the edge of your comfort--no longer resting on what's easy, but leaning into what's challenging and enriching and gorgeous and true.

--Brianna Wiest

#brianna wiest #road #happiness #pivot #brave #daring #live #edge #comfort #challenging #enriching #gorgeous #true #manifesting generators

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"The poet, when effective, is not merely a writer of words, but a cultural worker—a healer who uses the alchemy of language to mend the broken and bind the wounds of our collective spirit. The poet is a conductor and conduit of a world that begs us to see and celebrate our profound relationship to it. We are more than literature; we are cultural translators, humble prophets, communal visionaries. We are stewards and servants of humanity and emotion, dreamers and realists inseparably entwined.” 

--Bobby Lefebre, former poet laureate of Colorado

#bobby lefebre #poet #effective #writer #words #culture #healer #alchemy #language #mend #collective #spirit #conduit #relationship #translators #prophets #visionaries #stewards #serve #humanity #emotion #dreamer #realist