litany for survival

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"In some sense, the word enlightenment is misleading. It is no more about the light than the dark. Resisting the shadow just makes it darker. It is not about becoming continuously blissful. It is about becoming more authentic, more genuinely here. It is about holding the light & the shadow all at once. Perhaps we should call the ultimate goal enrealment—the quest to live in all aspects of reality at once."

Jeff Brown (via venuschild)

right? its our fear, not the darkness, that is the problem

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afrodiaspores:

JBC, Ochún, ca. 2011. As Mary Cuthrell Curry put it in Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community:

She is the owner of gold and is therefore extremely wealthy. She is the Orisha who holds her mirror (one of her major symbols) up to a person and demands that there be love for what is seen. She wants a person to love him/herself as she does herself. Her other major symbols have to do with connection. She has needles with which it is said she sews society together. More recently she has taken to sewing machines…

afrodiaspores:

JBC, Ochún, ca. 2011. As Mary Cuthrell Curry put it in Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community:

She is the owner of gold and is therefore extremely wealthy. She is the Orisha who holds her mirror (one of her major symbols) up to a person and demands that there be love for what is seen. She wants a person to love him/herself as she does herself. Her other major symbols have to do with connection. She has needles with which it is said she sews society together. More recently she has taken to sewing machines…

— 1 week ago with 35 notes
fuckyeablackart:

Water Spirit Healing by Bianca Dorsey:: Check out our Black Mermaid section HERE! ::

fuckyeablackart:

Water Spirit Healing by Bianca Dorsey

:: Check out our Black Mermaid section HERE! ::

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blackpoemusic:

Things that do not exist are more beautiful.
By Manoel de Barros

blackpoemusic:

Things that do not exist are more beautiful.

By Manoel de Barros

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queennubian:

wahaladey:

photobooth.

YES DAMMIT!

black girl perfection

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dynamicafrica:

Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.

1980s.

Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

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"Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."
Hermann Hesse (via cosmicthreads)

(Source: ninefoldgoddess, via wordslessspoken)

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#learning from the natural world everyday