Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version) > Recent Status Updates

“… all we owe to love is humility and gratitude that we were ever loved at all. … real humility is submitting with wonder and gratitude to being loved — real wisdom is understanding how amazing it is, how improbable and really absurd…”

“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling that things happen not one after the other, but all at once. … Everything still happens within me — how else can I explain that I am lonely, and never lonely — that I despise my friend and I miss her — that James Bower causes me the worst pain I ever knew, and no pain at all?”

“She nurses her anger with intimate attention…”

“But I won’t have you think my heart was broken because it was a man I loved. My heart was broken because I am alive.”

“It is right to be unhappy, she said. Isn’t the value of your love set by the heap of your sorrow?”

“But if does not always have to be settled domesticity or murderous pursuits. We might travel a little, you know. Find a meeting place in between full routine and homicidal peril.”

“There is no call to be in a temper. Just because we have been abducted. Again.”

“I think I will write poetry to you.” “I beg you will not trouble yourself.”

“The thirst to net each new specimen or mount each new mammal. There is nothing in natural history that is not new again every time we encounter it, no greater mystery than things that exist apart from man and with no interest in us.”

“We need to reclaim every shattered fragment of our body to experience wholeness. Healing happens as we invite our bodies back into the narratives of our lives.

“Being a body, seeing the self as inextricable from our physicality and our physicality as the expression of our personhood, invites us into wholeness. But when the self has been shattered and fragmented —as it has been for many of us — collecting the fragments, believing they belong to us and naming them as good, is politically rebellious, spiritually powerful, and biomedically healing practice.”

“Embodiment is a kind of re-member oh of what we really are, because what we picked up along the way was disembodiment. But disembodiment is not how we come into the world. It can be unlearned, while embodiment, our birthright, can be remembered. So embodiment is coming home, a remembering of our wholeness, and a reunion with the fullness of ourselves.”

“Being in our body gives us access to all the wisdom that our bodies hold. This allows us to know ourselves more fully, experiencing ourselves as good and sacred, and hold safety within ourselves no matter what happens around us. Embodiment is a way to heal the mind-body divide we experience within ourselves and, more systemically, within Western cultures.”

“There is so much goodness within and between us because of our bodies, the bodies we spend so much time trying to get away from, control, or blame.”

“… what body hatred costs us — individually and collectively — is fullness of life. We lose out on the goodness that comes through our body. And if we are our body, we miss out on experiencing our own goodness and the presence and wisdom that comes from deep connection to ourselves. We also lose out on connection with others…”

“We can’t avoid the painful things we experience though our bodies without sacrificing the good, the beautiful, the rich.”

“… thoughtful engagement with bodily sensation is essential for wholeness and healing.”

“… remembering and reuniting with our bodily selves is a radical act to undo our need to earn our worth, helping us wake up to the fact that there is something sacred right here, in this moment, always present and always available.”

“When I think about being human, the fragile, precious, and mysterious journey we each take from birth to death, I think about the body. The body is the place where all of this happens.”

“This is the real danger of our anger: it makes it clear that we take ourselves seriously. This is true both in our homes and in our public lives.”

“When Tom says shit like that, the universe rearranges itself to make it true. When I said it, the universe pissed itself laughing.”

“But there is something awry in the world, is there not, that we women must give our everything to men in life, and they theirs to us in death?”

“Breakfast is the best meal of the day — as it should be, to console one for having to get out of bed.”

“Your Highness… The couch is for sitting, the bed is for lying, and the shuttleport bars are for whatever unholy combination of both you’re doing there.”

“… suppose that we defected, not to each other’s sides, but to each other?”

“I have observed friendship as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate endeavour, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come. It is often my duty to fall in love convincingly, and certainly I’ve received no complaints. But that is work, and there are better things of which to write.”