Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Interpretation
Pain is a significant part of life that shapes our experiences and reactions.
This quote by Audre Lorde emphasizes the multifaceted nature of pain and its impact on our lives. It highlights that pain is not just something to be avoided or endured; instead, it serves as an important teacher, influencing how we respond to challenges, how we grow from our experiences, and ultimately, how we rise above adversity. By recognizing and addressing our pain, we can learn valuable lessons that contribute to our personal development and resilience.
In practice
During a motivational speech on overcoming obstacles.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.
Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. _x000D_ If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
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