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#YESQuotes: The Myth of Analysis / James Hillman - "#Love may melt one down, but it must burn deep & very long to transform & educate the historical level of one's unconscious soul patterns." #MentalHealth #DepthPsychology #ShadowWork #SoulWork #HealingJourney #LoveAsAlchemy bit.ly/3HSYzlJ

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#YESquotes: The Velvet Rage / Alan Downs - “Sadly, our culture raises man to be strong & silent. Straight or gay, the pressure is on from the time we're very young to become our culture's #JohnWayne-style of man: The more #pain I can take, the more of a man I am...." #Pride #NoShame bit.ly/3ZKl9Db

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Blessed #SummerSolstice! Even at the height of the sun’s power, we remember: lengthening nights bring rest & regeneration, the fertile pause between growing seasons. #LongestDay #CelebrateTheSun #WhatAreYouHarvesting #CarryLightForward

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#YESquotes: #DeadSetonLiving /Chris Grosso - "That’s what a life is—a flip....We can showboat. We can be famous. We can discover some incredible thing. We can do some awful thing. Often we’re going to belly flop...That’s the usual way to do it, & there’s nothing wrong w/ it.” #Healing bit.ly/3FXOEL3

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#YESquotes: Falling Back in Love w/ Being Human / Kai Cheng Thom - "i don't want to be a volcano. i want to be a garden full of flowers bursting open toward #life, all of them singing, i'm here. i mean something. i want to #live.” #Pride #QueerHealing #AliveAndWorthy #choosejoy bit.ly/4k1PlRs

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#YESquotes: Present Moment, Wonderful Moment/Thich Nhat Hanh - " Sometimes our #body is here but our #mind is lost in the past or in the future... If we practice the [Buddha's] teaching on how to #breathe #mindfully, we bring mind & body together, & they become one again." #BeHereNow bit.ly/3FL8Rnm

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#YESquotes: The Carter Presidency & #GayRights / Harris Dousemetzis - "During Carter's presidency, gay people were for the first time drawn into #governmental policy-making & accepted as part of the political community....chang[ing] the public's sensitivity to gay rights..." #Pride bit.ly/4ninFuz

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#YESquotes: The #Grief Club / #MelodyBeattie - “The 2nd thing that helped was stories...honest accounts abt how people felt, what they went thru, & what helped them, not contrived stories saying how they thought they were supposed to feel & what they thought they should do." #Healing bit.ly/40fH1X5

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#YESquote: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality/Sherronda J. Brown - “#Labels don't put us in a box. #Ideas do...We have taken hold of the part of our being, or our becoming that has long been nameless, and we have given it a name.” #Pride #Asexuality bit.ly/3SVntDz

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Empower someone (or yourself) today with a message to LIVE, dammit! .... #BecauseTheWorldNeedsYou. #YoureNotDoneYet. #YouCanDoThis #LivingFiercelyIsResistance and more. #WearHope www.cafepress.com/shopdetail/l...

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#YESquotes: The Cow in the Parking Lot / Leonard Scheff - “Change comes, not by struggling to #change or by fighting or #disciplining oneself, but by becoming aware of what we are #feeling and how we habitually act.” #MentalHealth #Anger #SelfAwareness #HabitChange #PersonalGrowth bit.ly/4kTlgVA

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#YESquote: You Exist Too Much / Zaina Arafat - "It’s the idiosyncrasies of #culture that keep me an outsider & leave me w/ a persistent & pervasive sense of #otherness, of #non-belonging." #Pride #DiasporaVoices #Intersectionality #CulturalDisplacement Photo: Rachel Shor, Wikimedia bit.ly/3FJFBNN

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More important than ever in this day and age!

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Today and every day, we celebrate #SimoneBiles and all those who stand up for #equality and #inclusion in #athletics and #sports. Top athletes often have genetic advantages that help them win. But, very hard work is more important than anything else. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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#YESquote: #ActiveHope / Joanna Macy - "A great #story and a satisfying #life share a vital element: a compelling #plot that moves toward meaningful #goals, where what is at stake is far larger than our personal #gains&losses. The #GreatTurning is such a story." #CollectiveHealing bit.ly/3ZC1Uvs

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#YESquote: Here For It / R. Eric Thomas - "I had this idea that the challenges I suddenly encountered--my Blackness, my gayness, my Christiannness, my Americanness & their intersections--wd...get uncomplicated thru the magic of time... Spoiler alert: they didn't. #Pride #LivingWhole bit.ly/4egNG9l

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#YESquotes - #TaoTeChing / LaoTzu/Ursula LeGuin trans - "Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. #Compassionate toward yourself, you #reconcile all beings in the world.” #innerpeace bit.ly/4n8SEsY

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#YESquote: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls/T.Kira Madden: “These hushed years. These #secrets of the body. To whom did they belong first. I want to find where it began and say, I'm here now, listening.” #Pride #SurvivorVoices #HealingJourney #ListenDeeply bit.ly/4jSSjYq

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Greeting you on Bluesky with this reminder They are living, thinking, feeling beings And they deserve our respect, even if we haven't earned theirs. One love

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"Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.” ~ Linda Hogan.

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#YESquote: Thoughts W/o a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective/Mark Epstein - "When we refuse to acknowledge the presence of unwanted #feelings, we are as bound to them as when we give ourselves over to them indignantly and self-righteously.” #MentalHealth #SelfAwareness bit.ly/3HDI7pj

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#YESquote: Before We Were #Trans/ Kit Heyam - "If we frame the entanglement of #gender & #sexuality as a relic of an unenlightened past, we erase the experiences of many... often, disproportionately, working-class ppl & ppl of colour." #Pride #QueerHistory #TransRights bit.ly/3FCuMwX bit.ly/4l4SqRG

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Banning children’s books and arresting librarians because of LGBTQ+ content doesn’t protect kids and prevent indoctrination, it protects bigots and is indoctrination. I hope this clarification helps. popular.info/p/florida-of...

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Your crossed over loved ones always send love your way. May their love give you strength. #grief #mourning #love #spiritualawakening #kathleenberry #spiritualjourney #spirituality #mysticism #mystic

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#YESquote: The Art of #Loving / Erich Fromm - " #Love is not primarily a #relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of #character which determines the #relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one object of love." #MentalHealth #OpenHeart bit.ly/400V9Dq

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#YESquote: Don't Tell Me to Wait / Kerry Eleveld - " #PresidentObama will indeed go down in history as the president who helped launch a new era of #equality in America, but it was the #LGBTactivists themselves who gave that legacy life." #Pride #LoveIsLove #GayPride #Resilience bit.ly/4kGYO1I

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#YESquote - Boy Erased / Garrard Conley: "This #affliction is what makes me #smarter. This #disadvantage is what gives me my #ambition. This is what first inspired me to write.” bit.ly/3FTcMye What challenges have fueled your passion? bit.ly/40YsiPX #Pride #LGBTQ #ambition #LoveIsLove

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#YESquotes - The #DialecticalBehaviorTherapy Skills Wkbk: "In [ #DBT], the balance is btw change & acceptance. You need to change the behaviors in your life that are creating more suffering for yourself/others while simultaneously also accepting yourself the way you are" #MentalHealth bit.ly/3TlDrqw

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#YESquotes: Truth or Dare/Starhawk: "We also have a #responsibility not to let ourselves be #judged. We do not have to accept others' evaluations of our #worth, nor are we obligated to believe in their superiority...We can stop the game by refusing to play our expected part." #Empower bit.ly/3TfLgxU

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#YESquotes - #RedefiningRealness / Janet Mock: “ #Self-definition & #self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the #audacity and #strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be.” #Pride bit.ly/3SGN2bn

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Empower someone (or yourself) today with a message to LIVE, dammit! .... #BecauseTheWorldNeedsYou. #YoureNotDoneYet. #YouCanDoThis #LivingFiercelyIsResistance and more. #WearHope bit.ly/4kXd3iE

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#YESquote - The Body Keeps the Score/Bessel van der Kolk: “As long as you keep #secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of #courage. #TruthHeals #InnerWork bit.ly/3FNS3Mf

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#YESquotes: Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity/JackTurban: "As we dive deeper into the complexities of gender, we oft learn a lot abt ourselves--our own gender identities are more nuanced than they appear at 1st glance. We also learn a lot abt society & politics." #Pride bit.ly/3TdPo1p

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#ClarissaPinkolaEstes: Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation. So the question is what kind of world we want to create: what do we value? What do we stand for? How might we unite & reorder ourselves & our perspectives to thrive & prosper all life henceforth? bit.ly/4hkaVA6

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Despite losing beloved cat, life's work, possessions, & home in a fire, mystic/author #AndrewHarvey writes: "I find myself in the greatest peace & joy I have ever known, surrendered & resolute to continue to give everything I am & have to you." Let's help him recover: bit.ly/3SFw25e & bit.ly/43yKt1h

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#OnePlanet #OneWorld #OneSociety

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These ?s have been haunting me…with the sort of resonance that tells me they are not only ?s for myself, but ?s that also need to be offered to others, to be picked up & turned so the light shines thru them, to be gazed into like crystal balls, scrying for our utterly unique answers. bit.ly/3Znm0cN

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#PrideMonth is here - and so is a new bookshelf of highly rated, empowering #LGBTQIA reads. These titles reflect a #radicallyinclusive view of humanity — across cultures, colors, genders, and beliefs. 👉 Start exploring and celebrate every shade of #identity this Pride. bit.ly/3T5owRc

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#YESquotes: No Ashes in the Fire/Darnell L. Moore: "Too few are asking us the ?s to get to the depths of black queer boys' traumas...To ask those ?s would mean black boys & men would have to be seen...as bleeding, crying, vulnerable & sometimes resilient human persons.” #Pride bit.ly/3FL13li

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#YESquotes: #LovingWhatIs / #ByronKatie: “I am a lover of what is, not b/c I’m a spiritual person, but b/c it hurts when I argue w/ reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, b/c...When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, & fearless.” bit.ly/45M3df4

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