A fellow artist recently shared this and I found it beautiful & on point

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know 
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

(Oriah Mountain Dreamer)

Your freedom...especially of thought and feeling

I cannot encourage enough the importance of not allowing others to dictate to yourself how to think, or how to feel. And just as severe- don't handicap yourself by attempting to curb, hide or restrict the thoughts and feelings that flow and occur naturally. Most notably, many try to hide their pain, but pain is something you carry because you feel your deepest strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. At the root of it all, I feel many are afraid of themselves, and of their own reality; their thoughts and their feelings most of all. Many talk about how great love is, but in all honesty love can be painful and some feelings are disturbing.  We all experience pain and it's a feeling that wakes us up. Your feelings are a part of you and your personal reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re trading in your reality for a show. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on an act. There can't be any form of positive large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. Allow yourself to experience your deepest fear, and it will dissolve until you break free.

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

Vexed?

On and on the river flows,

Through gentle rise and fall,

Through aggressive tides,

To accept or contest the currents?

Masterful woe, 

Or domineering preferment.

The Power of YOU!

Time to put these thoughts into words...
I think NOW is the time to realize fully and utilize our INFINITE potential as living beings of this universe. This is both in a personal sense for myself or anyone else, and a collective sense as human beings in general. (As well as any other species in the cosmos that may need some kind of reaffirmation because who knows, they could have self doubts too. lol.)

I find that we often hand our power over to, firstly, our past actions and trains of thought, our insecurities, our feelings of insignificance as compared to others, and secondly, even to any and all possible "more intelligent life" out there, instead of fully realizing the miraculously advanced and intelligent life that we are. For happiness sake, and for the sake of positive progression, it is time to stop the self- force fed delusion or bad habits of self-degradation or "spell" if you will, and free ourselves completely from mental slavery.

Time to realize the immaculate perfection that we are. Because we are IT! All there is. Now is it! Anyone and everyone and everything is it! And it is all YOU! Evolution is internal through the ever present now moment, and so Now is the time! Allow yourself to break free ;)

Melodia

Some of my favorite quotes

Some more serious, and some much more sarcastic, but they all tickle my fancy... please enjoy.



What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley

You're only as pretty as you feel.
Jefferson Airplaine

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. 
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell


“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.” 
 John Steinbeck

"There's a theory which states that if ever, for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." 
Douglas Adams

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” 
Elbert Hubbard

Our greatest glory lies not in never falling,
but rising every time we fall.
Confucius

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting. 
e. e. Cummings

Without deviation progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
Hunter S. Thompson

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little” 
George Carlin

Poetry

Some scribbles as taken from my journals from the last few years. 


I'm still Un-learning
Slowly but surely
Do you still seek the unattainable?
In that gap
Is our creation
Our existence
Our purpose
Yet we were born
Not to know
The mystery is Who we are



 Not yet the expression it approaches.
Attempting to examine the line.




Until the pain feels beautiful
Do we miserably lie bricks
Tread or sink through your sands
Cannonball or bellyflop to your waters


The eyes never lie
Seize their vision
As pupils grow wide
Desire and Truth
Windows to our dreams & souls



Who Made Who





Arise now to your land.
Remember your nothings.
Keep them in hand.