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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Very interesting article about the physiological effects of yoga!

‘It’s not so much going from male to female as going from a person who had secrets to a person who doesn’t have secrets anymore.’

Jennifer Finney Boylan

An excerpt from Jennifer Finney Boylan’s interview about her transition from man to woman speaks not only to transgendered individuals but to anyone who has had to conceal their identity in order to avoid being ostracized. To go from having secrets to no longer bearing the burden of those secrets is an indescribable freedom.

I could get use to being a stranger. No expectations of future commitment. An opportunity to reinvent yourself without the baggage of your past. Just pure and simple human company.

I made a new friend at a work conference this past weekend. She speaks 3 words of English and I haven’t spoken Spanish in nearly 10 years. We decided to skip the formal dinner and head to the beach. We grabbed pizza, got drunk off of margaritas and used google translate for our more profound conversations. Once you’re drunk, it doesn’t really matter what language you speak. In some odd way, it all seemed to make sense.

Everybody’s life is either a warning or an example. You’ve got to decide what you’re gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.
Tony Robbins

So true. Love this quote!

devonnemarieray:

wishing all u wonderful women out there a very happy women’s day .. never lose hope .. stay strong :)

Happy International Women’s Day!!

Went to the screening of It’s a Girl! Such a heart wrenching documentary, a definite must see!