The stuff life is made of

"Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:28:00 +0100

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”

- (via inbetweenlove)

I hate to say this..but don't you think that is uterly tragic, that people forgot the struggles of Haitian people, all the Kony "movement" the unanpaid people in Africa for the gold,diamonds while un Europe/America everyone s priority is being fit, drink smoothies, don't wanna getting old and be sexy? Is a fucked up world! P.S.I love your blog I shape Beauty.

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:56:37 +0100

Be the change you want to see in the world. I agree, but if you look at things from that perspective you’ll miss all the joy and love that does exist in the mess of it all. There is a lot of injustice but you can’t change people you can only change you so the real question for us all is how are we living? How is my existence making my surroundings better?

Thank you, glad you like the blog xx

johngotty: McFly Im still waiting for the hover board to be...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:00 +0100

johngotty:

McFly

Im still waiting for the hover board to be invented. We are not technologically advanced in my books until this happens, I don’t care what else they invent I want to hover!

"I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:20:44 +0100

“I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in — at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own — but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, in some perverse mood; but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are: Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown- ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive, and a strong one.”

- Snippet taken from George Orwell ‘Why I Write’ (Worth a read, it’s free online)

"I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up"

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:11:46 +0100

“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up”

- Shane Koyczan, The Student (via loveyourchaos)

Spoken Word Educators minus ray

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:24:11 +0100

Spoken Word Educators minus ray

Damn Kelly.

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:38:09 +0100

Damn Kelly.

"If I was talking to someone who was young who was just starting out, go to college for something..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:36:24 +0100

“If I was talking to someone who was young who was just starting out, go to college for something other than writing. Like don’t go to writing school. Go for science or something that’s really interesting and then write about that. That would be my advice to them. Do you know Murat Nemet-Nejat? He’s a Persian poet but he lives in the states and he had a workshop at St. Mark’s and he said to us, “Well, the nice thing about being a poet is you’re making bread that no one wants to buy so you can make it as salty as you’d like.” So when I think of that, that’s when I’ve written my best stuff. There’s no stakes in poetry. The best poets have not made their livings off it and possibly weren’t even acknowledged much in their lifetimes except for maybe other poets or a few people. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t change that they were great. When I read something I know if it’s great or not. It doesn’t matter who wrote it and it doesn’t matter who else likes it. To me that’s an inherent quality and if people want to be poets that’s what I would go for. Go as hard and deep as you can into your own vision and make it pop into the world and shape it and make it exactly you—and what you’re seeing. Make it into a solid thing. Then just put it out and don’t worry if people like it and don’t try to adjust it for anyone. If they don’t like it, it doesn’t change it. That’s my advice.”

- Maggie Dubris (via jslr)

"My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time."

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:52 +0100

“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.”

- Jonathan Carroll (via hellanne)

Being honest with yourself.

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:15:00 +0100

Today i learnt i hate attention

because I am afraid to be seen

because I am afraid I am not good

because i associate attention to being bad and wrong.

Because I cannot see my good

i just step out in faith but

i don’t give my all

because then it would be my all

that is wrong and maybe

on a bad day i might accept that as a truth.

Tedx Brixton

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:44:00 +0100

So for those who don’t know, I’ll be doing a Tedx Talk and performance on July 13th. You can find out about tickets here: http://tedxbrixton.com/

Hope to see you there :)

www.ishapebeauty.com

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:55:21 +0100

www.ishapebeauty.com

"It seems to me that the hardest thing for people to accept is that they are powerful."

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:48:16 +0100

“It seems to me that the hardest thing for people to accept is that they are powerful.”

- Indigo Williams

"Everyone practices magic, it’s just that some of us do it consciously and others..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:33:00 +0100

“Everyone practices magic, it’s just that some of us do it consciously and others unconsciously. Magic is the manipulation of energy and energy follows thought. Whatever you can imagine, you can conjure up on some realm of existence, and so prayer is a form of magic. For example, willing harm or good on another is a form of magic and meditating on negative or positive thoughts about someone ( or a thing) is magic, because you are sending that energy to them ( or it). Prayer beads and all other religious tools are really there to help you focus your thoughts and intention, they are no different to a wand.”

- Indigo Williams

"Every intention in your heart is a prayer willing the universe into action."

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:20:54 +0100

“Every intention in your heart is a prayer willing the universe into action.”

- Indigo Williams

love doesn’t hurt baby.

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:10:48 +0100

love doesn’t hurt baby.

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:10:29 +0100

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”

- Assata Shakur (via imadeva)

"One of the best things you can do for yourself is become acutely aware of your energy and how you..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:09:00 +0100

“One of the best things you can do for yourself is become acutely aware of your energy and how you manage and care for it.”

- Indigo Williams

The repercussions of accepting a parasitic relationship

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:00:00 +0100

I still pay the price of allowing and accepting a parasitic relationship in my life. The biggest problem with such relationships is they leave you energetically open to similar types of energy. Once you welcome it, it’s hard to repair the damage and shut the door.

A person’s presence should leave you feeling full not empty or less than. Greatness elevates everything around it.

Discipline.

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:30:19 +0100