Erika Harris + Naomi Wilzig
Earlier this month in South Beach, Florida I met the woman who founded the world's largest erotic art museum -- WEAM. She is dignified and regal. A true lady. And her gallery is filled with the wildest manifestations of humanity's expressed and repressed sexuality and eroticism. Gathering all those artifacts, knowledge and history was an important work I'm sure many didn't understand or support. Thankfully, it didn't stop her. Which brings me to you. If you are pouring yourself into a pursuit or project, and especially if it is controversial or misunderstood, I am to encourage you to persist. Insist. Lean forward and bring that precious thing into completion. Your daily commitment will feed you with all that you need: insights, resources, strategies, connections, miracles. Become as solid and immovable as Mount Kilimanjaro. Love, not duty, will empower you to do so. To be so. Each failure or setback will only add to your height and breadth. Nothing gets wasted. Discouragement and fatigue will melt into amusing puddles at your feet. Make use of their water, and plant flowers there! Memorialize the shadow-talkers who said it couldn't be done. Enshrine your conviction that knew it could happen all along. When you express your truth, you strengthen your magnetic effect.
Some people and opportunities will draw closer to you, while other people and opportunities will pull away from you. More and more, I prefer these polarized effects. They sculpt. They add contour and clarity. They create the difference between a nebulous cloud you can only look at, and an actual life you can adjust to fit you. It is not vainglorious to seek or create a life that fits you. Sharing your truth (what you know or feel to be certain about a particular thing) takes a glob of indecision, or faint expression, and turns it into something you not only recognize, but craved all along. And the best part? Everyone remains okay! Better than okay, actually. Sure, others may not like or approve of your expressed truth, but in those uneasy situations, you get to taste the matured freedom of living with rejection and disapproval. You get to know for sure that your survival is not dependent upon the blessing of others. This liberation isn't to make you an insensitive jerk, but a high-soaring soul (who will find that gentleness is the seed that altitude plants in every seeker's heart). So, speak up. Sculpt. Be willing to whittle, chisel and trust that sharing your truth is good. It is The Point. Or one of them, anyway :-) |
The question "How are you?" is PROFOUND. But it has been watered-down to a synonym for "Hello." Forced or fake auto-responses of obligated okay-ness are expected. (And if you are going through something tragic, it really doesn't matter! Every social encounter OPENS with this well-established Ritual of Insincerity.) The question "How are you?" prompts an answer that begins with "I AM _____________." This means many times each day, you are invited to SPEAK THE MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT that can be spoken of yourself. And the socially-expected thing to do, is be QUICK + SLICK with your answer. For a change... TAKE YOUR TIME, and tell your truth. ✍🏾 |