Siren Rising

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Quotation: Conjuring Calm

"Calm is really difficult to conjure up," says Amos, "but it's not hard to muster rage; you can pull rage out of your ass without even needing fingernails. What I've found harder to achieve is the ability to focus my anger, to be in control of myself enough that if somebody takes a shot at me, they don't necessarily get a response back -- that's when you've done your work, that's when you're a powerful woman."

- Tori Amos -

"Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are."

- Pema Chodron -

“Certainty is a dream-killer because it stops us from exploring the possibility that we don’t know everything, and that we might be able to create something better.”

- Danielle LaPorte -

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Quotation: Call Of Freedom

“We say, ‘you know it in the head, but don’t know it in the heart’. There is an extraordinary distance from the head to the heart, a distance of ten, twenty, thirty years or a lifetime. You can know something in the head for forty years and it may never have touched the heart. But only when you have realised it in the heart, do you really begin to take notice of it.”

- Carl Jung -

"As a bird soars high

into the free holding of wind,

clear of the uncertainty of ground,

She opened her wings of imagination.

Soaring into the grace of creativity -

She flew past restlessness

satisfying her hunger for flight.

In that instant, she awakened

to the call of freedom

and knew who she was."

- Stephey Baker -

"There's a light on humanity's horizon and it is beckoning to all of us. We can't see it with the outer eye but only with the inner eye. It's like a magnet that's drawing us toward a different kind of life on earth, one in which love is the new bottom line."

- Marianne Willliamson -

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Quotation: Become It

“It doesn’t matter to me anymore whether something’s bad or wrong. I’ve been too busy with that my whole life. Life is a test and you learn from the moment things happen to you. How do you react? Are you getting depressed? Do you feel like you’re a failure? Or do you think: ‘OK, that happened, this is what I said, or that didn’t go the way I expected’. One who plays safe will never know what he or she is capable of. If you are afraid to go too far or to show who you really are then you are not living life the fullest.”

- Tori Amos -

"The problem is that when we don't care at all what other people think and we're immune to hurt, we're also ineffective at connecting. Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection"

- Brené Brown -

“No matter what your weakness is, your potential for strength is bigger. No matter what your fear is, love is bigger. And so it is. Affirm it. Know it. Receive it. Become it.”

- Marianne Williamson -