“She is fluent in freedom and fully self-aware of her connection with the land. She is exploring solely for the sake of her self-discoverry. She is exploradora: anchored in the Truth and captivated by the Way.”
Source: Daydreaming in Spanglish
“Mija, you are poetry in a world that is still learning the alphabet”
Source: Daydreaming in Spanglish
“Some are mental por dinero,
Some are loco por la ropa.
Let them be as they please,
Estoy loco por la humanidad.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“My science is you, my art is you,
La mañana de mi mente eres tú.
Mi casa tú, mi cielo tú,
La verdad de mi vida eres tú.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Time is a slimy wimy thing,
Life is a blessy messy thing.
Love is a happy crappy thing,
Mind is a mighty fighty thing.
And yet,
Sin amor no hay mente,
Sin mente no hay vida.
Life is a record of love,
Time is a record of love -
To fathom this is to find felicidad.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Quieres vivir para siempre,
Walk like un buen ayudante.
Anybody can take, take, and take,
My motto is to give my life away.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.”
“She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and kissed me—here, on the left-hand corner of my mouth. And nobody knows better than I that I couldn’t have felt anything, because Tamsin was a ghost—but nobody but me knows what I felt. And I’ll always know.”
Source: Tamsin
“Serving my country does not mean blindly following others.”
Source: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
“Mark's expecting his first child, and he tells us he might not be present for the birth. As the only person who's birthed a baby, I'm stunned. And genuinely curious. "What would you be doing instead?" I asked him. Like, what in the world could possibly be more meaningful to him than the birth of his first child? He had no idea. Just "something more important might come up.”
Source: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism