umi and love

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

– James Baldwin

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”

– Maya Angelou

“God is at home, it is we who went out for a walk.”

– Meister Eckhart

“Talking to plants is one way of directly talking to Spirit.”

– Rosemary Gladstar

“which me will survive
all these liberations.”

– Audre Lorde

“We have to be willing to come apart at the seams, to be dismantled, to let our old ego structures fall apart before we can begin to embody sparks of the essential perfection at the core of our nature. To evolve spiritually, we have to allow these unworked, hidden, messy parts of ourselves to come to the surface.”

– John Welwood

“Once you know the God of love,
you fire all the other gods.”

– Mirabai Starr

“Start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret.”

– Hafez, Persian poet

“Come on, dance with me. The earth is spinning. We just can’t stand on it.”

– Dino Ahmetovic

When you pray, move your feet.

– African Proverb