Quote Of The Day

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“Rather than a single calling we have to discover, I think of purpose as something rather ordinary. It's a way of living life in response to this always changing need for braver expression. What are the conditions that will best serve your unopened seeds? How can your soil be tended to nourish your well-being? What must be weeded out or sloughed off to clear the way for the new sprouts?” ~Toko-pa

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules and customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water." ~Roman Payne

"It is the only thing we can do...I see no alternative...each of us must turn inwards and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable." ~Etty Hillesum

 

[Lionheart]

“Don’t fight darkness- bring the light and darkness will disappear.” ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi~
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." ~Maori Proverb~

 

[Tinyflame]

“Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Reality is not limited to the perceptions we have traditionally used." ~Paul Stamets

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." ~Hafiz

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.” ~Rupi Kaur

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"To live in the body of a survivor is to never be able to leave the scene of the crime. I cannot ignore the fact that I live here." ~Blythe Baird

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“We notice only what we think noteworthy, and therefore our visions highly selective.” ~Alan Watts

"You either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you." ~Dolores Cannon

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it." ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Even the efficiency of a machine depends upon the quality and amount of its fuel." - Prof. Arnold Ehret

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality.
Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits.
Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture." ~Ressma Menakem

"ALL of your questions will never be answered because some knowledge is poison rather than medicine." ~Dolores Cannon

"We have a narrow definition of what constitutes being smart that leaves people out and wounds people's sense of self. We have elevated one type of brain at the expense of all the other representations of intelligence and flourishing. Intelligence is not one thing, it's many things. The problem is a set of institutional practices that reinforces the idea that difference is the problem." ~Jonathan Mooney

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"To have a different life you have to be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done... But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story, it becomes the moral of the story..." ~Shannon L. Alder

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"I'd much rather be "too sensitive" than whatever the f*ck has happened to half of humanity." ~Giulia Rozzi