"We don’t need Afghan-style burquas to disappear as women. We disappear in reverse—by revamping and revealing our bodies to meet externally imposed visions of female beauty."
#truth
#beauty
#sexuality
#dignity
#quotes
"Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions."
-Ben Okri ….Oh lordy. This runs deep.
#quotes
#words
"In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India- I find that people are more content to just be, to just around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there it is valued."
Mother Theresa
#Mama T
#quotes
#be
"Beware of hurry. Beholding glory begs for lingering."
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#Mantra