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“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“If you’re a woman, it’s almost impossible to establish a relationship. You’re too much for everybody. It’s too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you’re not, they’are fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear.”
― Marina Abramović

“It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You’re so innocent in the beginning; you don’t know.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“People have so much pain inside them that they’re not even aware of.”
― Marina Abramović

“Two worms lived in shit, a father and son. The father said to his son, “Look at the wonderful life we have. We have plenty to eat and plenty to drink, and we are protected from outside enemies. We have nothing to worry about.” The son said to his father, “But father, I have a friend who lives in an apple. He also has plenty to eat, plenty to drink, is protected from outside enemies, and, he smells good. Can we live in an apple instead?” “No, we can’t,” replied the father. “Why?” said the son. “Because, my son, the shit is our country.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.”
― Marina Abramovic

“If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you’ve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you’re going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“When I was young it was impossible for me to talk to people. Now I can stand in front of three thousand people without any notes, any preconception of what I’m going to say, even without visual material, and I can look at everyone in the audience and talk for two hours easily. What happened? Art happened.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now”
― Marina Abramović

“Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but it's so true. This was exactly how it was for me”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“It taught me that the process was more important than the result, just as the performance means more to me than the object. I saw the process of making it and then the process of its unmaking. There was no duration or stability to it. It was pure process. Later on I read—and loved—the Yves Klein quote: “My paintings are but the ashes of my art.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“To the right mind, no time exists other than the present moment, and each moment is vibrant with sensation. Life or death occurs in the present moment. The experience of joy happens in the present moment. Our perception and experience of connection with something that is greater than ourselves occurs in the present moment. To our right mind, the moment of now is timeless and abundant.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight

“If I am not persistent with my desire to think about other things, and consciously initiate new circuits of thought, then those uninvited loops can generate new strength and begin monopolizing my mind again. To counter their activities, I keep a handy list of three things available for me to turn my consciousness toward when I am in a state of need: 1) I remember something I find fascinating that I would like to ponder more deeply, 2) I think about something that brings me terrific joy, or 3) I think about something I would like to do.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“I know it can be very uncomfortable for a healthy person to try to communicate with someone who has had a stroke, but I needed my visitors to bring me their positive energy. Since conversation is obviously out of the question, I appreciated when people came in for just a few minutes, took my hands in theirs, and shared softly and slowly how they were doing, what they were thinking, and how they believed in my ability to recover.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as “brain chatter.” It is that voice reminding you to pick up bananas on your way home and that calculating intelligence that knows when you have to do your laundry. There is vast individual variation in the speed at which our minds function. For some, our dialogue of brain chatter runs so fast that we can barely keep up with what we are thinking. Others of us think in language so slowly that it takes a long time for us to comprehend. Still others of us have a problem retaining our focus and concentration long enough to act on our thoughts. These variations in normal processing stem back to our brain cells and how each brain is intrinsically wired.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“I find that using repetitious sound patterns such as mantra (which literally means “place to rest the mind”) is very helpful. By breathing deeply and repeating the phrase In this moment I reclaim my JOY or In this moment I am perfect, whole and beautiful, or I am an innocent and peaceful child of the universe, I shift back into the consciousness of my right mind.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, “Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“do I have to go back?” to “Why did I get to come to this place of silence?” I realized that the blessing I had received from this experience was the knowledge that deep internal peace is accessible to anyone at any time. I believe the experience of Nirvana exists in the consciousness of our right hemisphere, and that at any moment, we can choose to hook into that part of our brain. With this”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“AN ARTIST’S PRAYER
O Great Creator,
We are gathered together in your name
That we may be of greater service to you
And to our fellows.
We offer ourselves to you as instruments.
We open ourselves to your creativity in our lives.
We surrender to you our old ideas.
We welcome your new and more expansive ideas.
We trust that you will lead us.
We trust that it is safe to follow you.
We know you created us and that creativity
Is your nature and our own.
We ask you to unfold our lives
According to your plan, not our low self-worth.
Help us to believe that it is not too late
And that we are not too small or too flawed
To be healed—
By you and through each other—and made whole.
Help us to love one another,
To nurture each other’s unfolding,
To encourage each other’s growth,
And understand each other’s fears.
Help us to know that we are not alone,
That we are loved and lovable.
Help us to create as an act of worship to you.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“بوابة تفتيش على بابك....
كل ما أحاول أعدي تزمر....
و بتتشرط....
و بتتأمر...
أرجع أدور تاني و أدور...
وكل ما أعدي برضه تزمر....
طب آدي الساعه....
و آدي حزامي...
و آدي بطاقتي...
و النضارة...
و آدي عنواني....
و كل حكايتي..
و آدي أمارة...
حتى الفكه الباقيه ف جيبي...
والاشعار...
و المحفظه مفيهاش غير صورتك..
ليل و نهار..
كل هدومي..
زي ما نازل من بطن أمي..
من غير حتى ورقة توت..
و كل ما فوت..
البوابه برضك بتزمر..
و لما لمحني..
واحد طيب م الحراس..
و قاللي اسمعني يا ابن الناس..
إرمي الحته الحلوه ف قلبك..
و عدي..
و البوابه عمرها..
ما تزمر..”
― علي سلامة

“The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back—to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone to make them—before they can go forward. —PAULE MARSHALL”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy

“What is love, after all, if not an affectionate acceptance of the lover's full spectrum of being, the silly along with the solemn?”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“This false notion of the body as the testing ground for intimacy has long warped our understanding of what constitutes a romantic relationship. The measure of intimacy is not the quotient of friction between skin and skin, but something else entirely—something of the love and trust, the joy and ease that flow between two people as they inhabit that private world walled off from everything and everyone else.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . .

When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves