Alice in Wonderland Taxidermy Rabbit
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Only reblogging because Alice in Wonderland has a special place in my heart. I was also just in a production of it in my community theatre.
-S.
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.
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Ashley Judd, here. (via lexcanroar)
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
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| — | Thomas Moore (via elige) |
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
- Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
- Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
- Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion…
If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.
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| — | Wayne W. Dyer (via elige) |
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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| — | Friedrich Nietzsche (via heartmindspirit) |
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism, a charisma that can take out alive, young people from the traditional imprisonment. The awakened man cannot be enslaved - that is the difficulty - and he cannot be imprisoned. Every genius who has known something of the inner is bound to be a little difficult to be absorbed; he is going to be an upsetting force. The masses don’t want to be disturbed, even though they may be in misery; they are in misery, but they are accustomed to the misery. And anybody who is not miserable looks like a stranger. The awakened man is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation.
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| — | Osho, ”The Zen Manifesto: Freedom from Oneself” Chapter 9 (via heartmindspirit) |
The word “Easter” and most of the secular celebrations of the holiday come from pagan traditions. Anglo Saxons worshipped Eostre, the goddess of springtime and the return of the sun after the long winter. According to legend, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by…
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another; we mechanically follow somebody who will assure us a comfortable spiritual life. It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.
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| — | Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom From The Known (via heartmindspirit) |
I have always believed that each of us is responsible for doing their own emotional homework, that the process of facing down our ghosts is our small, attainable contribution to a kinetic process that holds the potential for healing the world. And why not? After all, the opposite is true: History has proven that people who are unwilling to catch and release their individual sadnesses, disappointments, and hidden motivations have compensated by wreaking havoc on the world. Good and evil lie within each of us, and every day we choose which potential to fill.
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| — | Deborah Daw Heffernan (via heartmindspirit) |
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.
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| — | George Andrews (via heartmindspirit) |
I don’t believe that anyone’s sexual practice is better than anyone else’s, just on the basis of the contents. It’s better if it’s more fulfilled, more satisfactory, not necessarily because someone has kinkier sex or multiple partners. Of course, if kinky, poly sex is the kind of thing you are craving, well, maybe that would be “better” for you. But that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Being sex positive does not necessarily mean doing all the sexy stuff—trying out all the toys, having frequent sex, trying out all the positions. Being sex positive means being accepting about the sex practices of others, regardless of your own.
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| — | Mr. Sexsmith’s Other Girlfriend: Sex Positivity is a Path of Courage « Sex positivity « Society (via sexisnottheenemy) |
