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    “I recently read about a famous actress who died in her eighties. As her beauty started to fade and became ravaged by old age, she grew desperately unhappy and became a recluse. She, too, had identified with a condition: her external appearance. First, the condition gave her a happy sense of self, then an unhappy one. If she had been able to connect with the formless and timeless life within, she could have watched and allowed the fading of her external form from a place of serenity and peace. Moreover, her external form would have become increasingly transparent to the light shining through from her ageless true nature, so her beauty would not really have faded but simply become transformed into spiritual beauty.”

    Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 186)

      “i want to apologize to all the women

      i have called pretty

      before i’ve called them intelligent or brave

      i am sorry i made it sound as though

      something as simple as what you’re born with

      is the most you have to be proud of when your

      spirit has crushed mountains

      from now on i will say things like

      you are resilient or you are extraordinary

      not because i don’t think you’re pretty

      but because you are so much more than that”

      Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 179)

        “he placed his hands

        on my mind

        before reaching

        for my waist

        my hips

        or my lips

        he didn’t call me

        beautiful first

        he called me

        exquisite”

        Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 54)

        Jonas Mekas Quote on Choosing Art and Beauty Against Ugliness and Horrors

          “I choose art and beauty, vague as those terms are, against ugliness and horrors in which we live today.  For somebody to look at a flower or listen to music does something to one, has a positive effect, and being surrounded by ugliness and horror does something negative.  So I feel my duty not to betray those poets, scientists, saints, singers, troubadours of the past centuries who did everything that humanity would become more beautiful.”

          Jonas Mekas, via Happiness is a Choice You Make (Page 45)

          Beyond the Quote (20/365)

          If it bleeds it leads.  If you haven’t heard this expression before, it’s sort of the unannounced, unofficial but predominantly popular strategy for many media outlets that represents the idea of using fear and despondency to keep viewers tuned in, listening, and coming back to them for more.  It’s popular because it works and because it works it helps media companies sell more advertisements and improve their bottom-line.

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