“In every family, culture, or religion, ideas of right and wrong are the hot cattle prods, the barking sheepdogs that keep the masses in the herd. They are the bars that keep us caged. I decided that if I kept doing the "right" thing, I would spend my life following someone else's directions instead of my own. I didn't want to live my life without living my life. I wanted to make my own decision as a free woman, from my soul.” TruthMoralityIndividualityMoralsIndividualismFollow Your HeartRight And WrongFollow Your Own PathYour PathRight From Wrong Book:Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“I want us all to grow so comfortable in our own feelings, our own knowing, our own imagination that we become more committed to our own joy, freedom, and integrity than we are to manipulating what others think of us. I want us to refuse to betray ourselves. Because what the world needs now in order to evolve is to watch one woman at a time live her truest, most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.” TruthJoyFreedomIntegritySovereignty Book:Untamed Source: Untamed
“What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable. —Liz Gilbert” TruthLyingHonestyComfortLiesAuthenticityTruth And LiesWhite LiesBe AuthenticBe Honest Book:Untamed Source: Untamed
“Tish senses. Even as the world tries to speed by her, she is slowly taking it in. Wait, stop. That thing you said about the polar bears…it made me feel something and wonder something. Can we stay there for a moment? I have feelings. I have questions. I’m not ready to run outside to recess yet. In most cultures, folks like Tish are identified early, set apart as shamans, medicine people, poets, and clergy. They are considered eccentric but critical to the survival of the group because they are able to hear things others don’t hear and see things others don’t see and feel things others don’t feel. The culture depends on the sensitivity of a few, because nothing can be healed if it’s not sensed first. But our society is so hell-bent on expansion, power, and efficiency at all costs that the folks like Tish—like me—are inconvenient. We slow the world down. We’re on the bow of the Titanic, pointing, crying out, “Iceberg! Iceberg!” while everyone else is below deck, yelling back, “We just want to keep dancing!” It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world. My little girl is not broken. She is a prophet. I want to be wise enough to stop with her, ask her what she feels, and listen to what she knows.” RealityTruthWilderness Book:Untamed Source: Untamed
“She married him anyway, because she was thirty-five years old and getting married is what she was supposed to do.She married him anyway, because there were so many people she would have disspaointed if she had called it off.There was only one of her, so she dissapointed herself instead.She said "I do" while her insides said "I don't", and then she spent and then she spent the next decade trying not to know what she knew: that she had betrayed herself and that her life would not really begin until she stopped betraying herself.” RealityTruth Book:Untamed Source: Untamed