I am not excited by the idea that our world is made up of 90 percent ugly things and ugly places, while things and places endowed with beauty are rare and difficult to find. My opinion is that there is no ugly object or ugly person in this world. Anything is potentially fascinating. Jean Dubuffet

Ishtar Howell writes: Pushing for a single payer healthcare system in the US is one of the greatest acts of love & service an American could engage in. The increases in health & economic prosperity & the decrease in sleepless nights & needless suffering will be astronomical & felt far outside the US

I invite you to entertain an improbable quest: a heroic task that provokes deep thoughts & noble passions . . . an extravagant dream that's farfetched but not entirely insane . . . a goal that stretches your possibilities & opens your mind . . . a wild hope whose pursuit makes you smarter & stronger

There is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words. Awareness can expand beyond range of your ego, self, familiar identity, beyond everything you've learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences that separate people from each other. —Walter Evans-Wentz

The Hebrew word "dayenu" means "it would have been enough." It's from a song that lists the gifts God gave, saying after each: dayenu, it would have been enough. What if you embraced that? Maybe what you have—this body, these relationships, this weird beautiful broken moment—is already enough.

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” . ― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

Maybe you periodically need bouts of lawless sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture. Not all the time, but sometimes. .

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You don't have to be a highly evolved paragon of enlightenment in order to ease suffering and bestow blessings. - Caroline Myss

All our beliefs and suspicions and theories about the way the world works are gambles. We're betting our lives that they have some match with the real reality. Even if we say we have no beliefs, suspicions, and theories about the way the world works—that is in itself a belief, suspicion, and theory.

We dream of healing outbreaks of curiosity, voyages of discovery that no one can hate, renegade democracies too holy for history to quash, giddy spiritual upheavals, and revolutions in the theory and practice of delight. We proclaim our unpredictable destiny, our lavish conquest of stupid doom.

If your path to so-called spiritual "enlightenment" or "growth" or "evolution" doesn't lead you to have more of a capacity to witness and acknowledge the suffering of your fellow humans, then it's not enlightenment, growth or evolution; it's "BYPASS." —Andrew Strowbridge

What is the most important thing you have never done? How could you play a joke on your fears? Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself. Name a good old thing you would have to give up in order to get a great new thing. What inspires you to love?

"As the essence of queer, I think of queer not as being about who you're having sex with—that can be a dimension of it—but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it, and it has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." —bell hooks

There are 237 million eligible voters in the US. Of those, 66.4 million would still vote for trump now: about 28% of eligible voters. Has there ever before been a Death Cult with 66.4 million members?

Addresses to make your voice heard at Disney/ABC: General Issues: [email protected] Publicity / Corporate Comms: [email protected] Audience Information: [email protected] Investor Relations: [email protected] Disney Advertising: [email protected]

@amay.a100 writes: JB Pritzker has officially beaten back Donald Trump from sending the military to Chicago.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. —Jaron Lanier

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made. — Virginia Satir

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love. . - David Levithan

This was originally posted by Rosie O'Donnell. It's reminiscent of Shepard Fairey's iconic 2008 Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. But we don't know if this artwork is officially by Shepard Fairey or by another specific artist.

Be my thunderclap, my cascade of shooting stars. Be my echo across the valley, my rebel hymn, my riddle with no answer. Be my just-before-you-wake-up-dream. Be my black pearl, my vacation from gloom and doom, my forbidden dance. Be my river-song in F major, my wild-eyed prophet, my moonlit debate.

Mindfulness is a form of "affectionate attention." —Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn+ There is ecstasy in paying attention.― Anne Lamott The poets are offering a religion of noticing things, or a religion of paying attention. —Ada Limón Attention is the beginning of devotion. —Mary Oliver

Tom Morello, from Rage Against the Machine, gives his “Fuck Ice” playlist: tinyurl.com/FuckIcePlaylist It features 65 songs highlighting protest, diversity, and inclusion. Includes Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" & Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," plus many more.

Sorry, I've got to vent, for the sake of my mental health: Anyone who supports trump at this point is either unconscionably cruel or hopelessly stupid or both.

Trump's cognitive dysfunction is far worse than Biden's cognitive decline, yet the media is downplaying it even more absurdly. —Marianne Williamson

"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions „„, are always impossible." -DORIS LESSING

Your new Free Will Astrology horoscopes are ready, featuring invitations to dive deeper, see wilder, and love stronger. Free Will Astrology Website: tinyurl.com/LoveBlissTruth Free Will Astrology Newsletter: tinyurl.com/TruthLoveBliss

One-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the sciences have been earned by immigrants to the United States.

The church says this body is a sin Science says this body is a machine Business says this body is a product The body says "I am a fiesta" - Eduardo Galeano + Image: Caeli La Photo by Kyer Wiltshire . .

The sky calls me.The wind calls me. The moon and stars call me. The dense groves call me. The dance of the fountain calls me. Smiles call me, tears call me. A faint melody calls me. The morn, noon and eve call me. Everyone is searching for a playmate. Everyone is calling, "Come, come!" Sri Chimnoy

We're all trying to wake up from sleepy delusions. What techniques work for you? Here are mine: shut up & really listen; take long walks in a natural place I've never seen; treat my dreams as messages from an intelligence that knows things I don't; sing strongly for a long time; remember why I love

@briantylercohen writes: Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

What's the wild nature? Clarissa Pinkola Estés says: to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty & pride regardless of the body's gifts & limitations, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition & sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to.

I invite you to study the brazen contradictions and draw inspiration from the crazy-making incongruities and marvel at the mysterious ambiguities and give your compassionate attention to the slippery paradoxes and say prayers of gratitude that they are making you wiser & deeper & kinder & cuter

Be as timeless as you dare to be. Immerse yourself in the most expansive feelings you can imagine. Authorize your immortal soul to be in charge of everything you do.

They call it the “Big Beautiful Bill. Its true name is The Grotesque Necromantic Jinx. A 940-page death curse written in the blood-ink of lobbyists. A trillion-dollar knife sharpened on children's bones. A gulag blueprint sealed with poisoned laughter. Read more: tinyurl.com/OurBodiesAre...

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