Beat of my Own Drum

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oculi-ds: Plot Twist by ~Inebriantia

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oculi-ds:

Plot Twist by ~Inebriantia

cheniershinyey: Pinot Noir nights.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:23:50 -0400

cheniershinyey:

Pinot Noir nights.

specialnights: Black Student Protest During Reagan Era.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:22:23 -0400

specialnights:

Black Student Protest During Reagan Era.

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askaboutnikki: 👀

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:16:11 -0400

askaboutnikki:

👀

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:15:38 -0400

thelovenotebook: THE BEST LOVE QUOTES ON TUMBLR

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:15:08 -0400

thelovenotebook:

THE BEST LOVE QUOTES ON TUMBLR

"In hating Africa and hating the African, we ended up hating ourselves, without realizing it. Because..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:14:54 -0400

““In hating Africa and hating the African, we ended up hating ourselves, without realizing it. Because you can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree … so they made you and me hate our African identity, our African characteristics. We hated our hair, we hated the shape of our nose, we hated the color of our skin; hated the blood of Africa that was in our veins. And in hating our features and our skin and our blood, we had to end up hating ourselves.””

- Malcolm X (via myafrica-isbeautiful)

fuckyeablackart: Francois Cauvin, Ophelia, Acrylic on canvas,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:14:07 -0400

fuckyeablackart:

Francois Cauvin, Ophelia,
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 30 in.
(40.75cm x 76cm)

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:59:18 -0400

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

- Maya Angelou (via loveyourchaos)

spiritualinspiration: “…I will free you from their bondage and...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:57:49 -0400

spiritualinspiration:

“…I will free you from their bondage and I will rescue you with an outstretched arm…” (Exodus 6:6, AMP).

No matter what’s going on in your life, no matter how somebody is treating you, God has a plan to free you from everything that would try to hold you back. He wants to rescue you and show you His mighty hand of favor and blessing. One translation says “with special and vigorous action.” What does that mean? That means, if you will stay in faith even in the difficult times, God is going to show up with explosive blessings. He is going to bring supernatural turnaround, supernatural breakthroughs, supernatural promotion, and supernatural deliverance.
God is saying, “I’m going to free you from the bondage of poverty and lack. I’m going to free you from the burden of depression and discouragement. I’m going to free you from every addiction, every bad habit.”

You don’t have to live in bondage to anything any longer! God’s arm of deliverance is outstretched toward you. He is setting you free from every bondage so that you can live the life of victory He has in store for you!

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6 Ways to Become Enlightened

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:32:29 -0400

6 Ways to Become Enlightened:

queensi:

When we get out of the way of our ego, we can learn to truly experience love from the inside out —as an intrinsic part of our nature, and as an intrinsic part of all creation.

When we experience love this way, we find our calling. This is living our lives authentically. This is living our bliss.

Here are six ways to becoming more enlightened:

1. Accept there is no escape from yourself.

You cannot escape: not through drugs, sex, alcohol or junk food. While you may feel like you’ve escaped, the effects will soon wear off. And once again, you’ll find yourself in waiting. As the Buddha said, “Our life is the creation of our mind.”

2. Find your true identity.

It’s amazing how everything will change when you change. Societal conditioning has misrepresented who you are. So many things in our life have been based on things that aren’t even true.

Keep asking:

Who am I?

Who am I?

Who am I?

3. Consciously reduce your attachment to material comforts.

Be aware that attachment to things outside of you will not lead you to happiness—they’re just an escape from facing yourself in the mirror. As a society, we have become receptive to media messages about external comforts—non-attachment requires not chasing after these shadows, counterfeits and luxuries. If you find yourself attaching to objects, it may be helpful to repeat this:

I have needs; I am not those needs.

I have desires; I am not those desires.

4. Be the love you’re seeking.

You cannot love another more than you love yourself. Loving yourself leads directly to loving choices for yourself and for others.

Know thyself. Loving yourself gets you to the true source of who you are. This is the start of consciously awakening to who you are. You become your own healer.

Positive self-esteem is an essential foundation that should be installed in your internal software from the earliest age. Without this foundation, people will always seek external methods of validation. Yet, love is always the answer.

5. Stop Resisting.

Since the human body is made up of over 70% water, it’s helpful to meditate on and bring into your awareness the qualities of water. Be open to new beliefs and insights. Take on the qualities of water to soften your alignment. Stop resisting and intend to consciously and unconsciously live effortlessly.

On the deepest level of choice, we are the masterminds of creation.

Surrender to the flow~surrender to your flow.

Water is boundless, effortless, graceful, spontaneous, fluid and always changing. How many of these qualities are you incorporating into your life, so that boundaries disappear and limitations fall? To offer no resistance to life is to be like water.

What are you resisting?

6. Create your life how you want it.

Are you choosing your experience?

Once you realize you’re dreaming, then you have the ability to choose what you dream.

If your life were a story and you were the author, what would you put inside that story, what experiences would you create—who would you be being inside your story?

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These are my top ways of becoming more enlightened, what are yours? Is becoming more enlightened one of your goals or secret ambitions? Do you have your own “authentic code of honor” that you live by? When you follow your own bliss, do you feel enlightened? Do you find bliss in unexpected places? Is enlightenment something you feel when you come into contact with your true nature?

What is your true nature?

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"Passion is what teaches us who we are and what we want our world to look like and the kind of people..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:30:57 -0400

“Passion is what teaches us who we are and what we want our world to look like and the kind of people we want to have in our lives. So start figuring out what excites you or what angers you and fight for, or against, those things.”

- Amy Poehler (via salsamyface)