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Although the model here is attractive, the beauty of this portrait is in the composition of the photograph. Kudos to the photographer! I admire your skill and creativity.
Remi Alade Chester
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“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
— Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: light skin vs. dark skin»
…..children are not idiots. They hear us and see us. They watch television, they listen to radio, they read magazines, they live in our world. So very early on, they know what we think. And often enough, it becomes what they think, too.
……A few months ago, a white teacher brought a black girl up to me as I was preparing to give a speech. The teacher wanted me to talk to her. She doesn’t think she is beautiful, said the teacher, because she is dark. I asked the girl if this was true and in a soft voice, with eyes averted, she said that it was.
And man, what do you say to that? How do you explain the psychology of self-loathing and the futility of judging oneself by someone else’s beauty standards, and the cumulative psychological weight of 400 years of being told you are not good enough and the need to embrace and love and value yourself just as you are?
…….We are over 40 years beyond the civil rights movement, 40 years beyond a burst of pride and racial consciousness that transfigured our very understanding of what it means to be black….
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Sri Krishna (3228-3100 BCE)
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accessing the inner-world through meditation
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"Remember often to draw your attention back into Awareness Itself, and just imbibe of this quality of pure Awareness. As often as possible, watch your activities as though you are watching someone else doing them. It is like looking over your own shoulder. Watch the thoughts in your mind, as you stay quietly, silently, abiding in the prior Awareness, the feeling I AM — not ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ but simply the pure feeling of I AM. Merge your thoughts in IT, and the mind and feelings will become one. This is Living Free!"A. Ramana
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as far as the “DL” or closted life goes, consider this…
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“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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Find the light at the end of the tunnel
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I (Am): a soulful smile... fire... a thought within the mind of God... aspiring, seeking Allah... frankincense, sage and patchouli... a strong embrace... AWAKENING beyond the boundaries of my ego... trying to limit my focus to living in the present moment... GRATEFUL for my life... now, accustomed to sleeping alone... not following the crowd... an intense gaze.... eternally curious… need to have dialogue to have access to the best parts of myself... especially attracted to men with feminine energy (of some kind, even to a slight degree in appearance)... find great beauty in many GENDER-FLUID individuals... BITE (so, use caution)... no joke... about the details... happiest when deliciously lost in listening to music... magnetic in social settings, but had developed a bad habit of self-isolating in recent years... MELTDOWN in crowded situations... move in my own time... always willing to be candid and direct, even when the truth may hurt... listening... learning... enjoy the wind.... analytical by nature... highly selective... edgy... abhor waiting... have NO patience for incompetence... used to believe in human loyalty... rarely feel sexual attraction... single, but not seeking romantic or sexual involvement... have an INFECTIOUS laugh... philosophical... a born communicator... a writer... sculpting images from words... a work-in-progress... always hot (give me air conditioning, autumn or winter, PLEASE)... a strategist... always advocating for a better world... watching, always watching.
