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Good Words

May 29, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

-Joseph Campbell

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It’s Such A Shame I Can’t Remember Why I Wrote This, Because Wouldn’t THAT Have Made A Great Story?

April 28, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

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Good Words

March 20, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-Carl Jung

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Good Words

March 14, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

Today I discovered the work of Rachel W. Cole, and I adore this passage I found in a blog post she wrote a couple of years ago called “Self-Centered“:

“Self-centered women are not easily blown over by the gusts of other people’s opinions, agendas, or problems coming their way. Their strong center keeps them steady.

Self-centered women know themselves. Intimately. The smooth and the rough. Their ego and their Self.

Self-centered women don’t put others before themselves to the point that they have nothing left. In turn, they have more to give to everyone.

Self-centered women know life isn’t tit for tat. They can receive without “earning” it and they can give without expectation of reciprocation.

Self-centered women are powered sustainably from a renewable source, rather than from  the validation, approval, and attention of outside and temporary sources.

Self-centered women are their own compass. Their own north-stars. They navigate these choppy waters as an eye in the storm. This is why we so often take refuge in their work, words, and presence.

They are lighthouses for the rest of us because they are lighthouses for themselves.”

May we all learn how to be a little more self-centered.

 

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This Is How I Want To Live

March 5, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

The great affair

The great affair, the love affair with life,
is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
climb aboard and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.

Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

-Diane Ackerman

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Good Words

February 20, 2015 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

“As for what’s next, I have no idea. But for now, I trust that not knowing isn’t the same as it not being possible.  ”

-Anna Guest-Jelley, founder and CEO (Curvy Executive Officer) of Curvy Yoga

 

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Good Words

August 4, 2014 By Jenny Ryan 1 Comment

Happiness is absorption, being entirely yourself and entirely in one place. That is the chapel that we crave.

~Pico Iyer

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Oh This Makes My Grammar Snob So Very, Very Happy

July 22, 2014 By Jenny Ryan 2 Comments

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What I See

May 21, 2014 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

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So many different ways I can see myself: woman, wife, fibro patient, artist, blogger, shit-kicker, bipolar, seeker, student, trailblazer, chronically fatigued, renaissance soul.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
-Walt Whitman

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Good Words

April 2, 2014 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

Empowerment Prayer

She is Maiden, Mother and Crone
In one…

You will recognize her because she
makes genuine eye contact with whomever she meets…
She is not afraid to be direct and honest about how she feels

She charts her own course
And is willing to meet whatever comes
Because she has faith in her Journey
She’s aware of her own strength

She delights in enabling the well-being and the empowerment of others
But she refuses to subject herself to energy drainers…
She sees through bullshit instantly
She knows how to protect herself

She is obedient to her own inner knowing,
She is willing to break the rules made by others
in order to be authentic to herself

Her truth comes directly through her heart
She uses her mind as the servant to manifest it

She is inwardly and outwardly Aware
She responds more than she reacts
She no longer waters illusory drama
She no longer feels the need to control what is

She is deeply connected to her creative source
She is her own work of art in progress
She can create beauty from whatever is in front of her

She is in tune with her intuition and instinctual body
She lives in the present
Because she is willing to relinquish the past
And allow the future the space it needs to unfold

She understands that life is an ever changing flow from one moment to the next…
She willingly goes with it.

She feels deeply connected to the earth and stays close to nature,
She recognizes that she is not separate from it…
Being connected to nature is essential for her health and well-being

She has simplified her life
Released the non-essentials so that she can be spacious and free

She values her aloneness,
She waters her Soul with it
But she also
values quality time with like minded Souls

She doesn’t need a man to complete her
Her relationships are on an equal basis of respect and sharing
Unbridled sensual pleasure…

She has no time for gossip
She’s invested in raising the Sisterhood up rather than cutting it down

She celebrates the Beauty and Power in other Women
She celebrates the Beauty and Power within herself

She is just as willing to receive as she is to give
She fills her own cup for herself and overflows it for others

She understands the futility of unsolicited advice
So she shares her wisdom through living it

She envisions the Healing of the world
She offers her gifts as a contribution towards it

Love is her religion
Unity is her gospel
Laughter is her Grace

She loves to play through her inner child
Sing and dance through her inner maiden
She nurtures her body mind and spirit daily through her inner mother

Others seek her for her Wisdom
Are irresistibly drawn to her unpredictable Mystery

They feel seen and accepted in her steady gaze…
Peaceful in her Sacred Space

They are shocked by her irreverent humor
But secretly inspired, uplifted,
Given permission to be themselves

She is Maiden, Mother and Crone
In one
She is Goddess

~Caroline de Lisser

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