Clara MacRae

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"if we win
there is no telling
we seek beyond history
for a new and more possible meeting."
#audrelorde

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals." #audrelorde #sisteroutsider

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"For we have, built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression, and these must be altered at the same time we alter the living conditions which are a result. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." #audrelorde

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"The old definitions have not served us, nor the earth that supports us." #audrelorde #sisteroutsider

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live." #audrelorde #sisteroutsider

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us." #audrelorde #sisteroutsider

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"As Antoninus, my city and country is Rome: as a human being, it is the world." #marcusaurelius #meditations

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Asia, Europe are mere nooks of the universe. Every ocean is a drop in the universe: Mount Athos a spadeful of earth in the universe.

The whole of present time is a pin-prick of eternity. All things are tiny, quickly changing, evanescent." #marcusaurelius #meditations

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me.
That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it, but everyone else can." #langleav

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"A sunken chest,
on the ocean ground,
to never be found
was where he found me.

There he stirred,
my every thought,
my every word,
so gently, so profoundly.

Now I am kept,
from dreams I dreamt,
when once I slept,
so soundly." #langleav

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

your love is the same - it runs wild and free
like the air around you, it stretches all around the world,
it does not leave a single thing untouched" #langleav

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"when love finds you,
it doesn't come with crashing waves or thunderbolts.
it appears as a song on the radio
or a particular blue in the sky.
it dawns on you slowly,
like a warm winter sunrise -
where the promise of summer shines out
from within" #langleav

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"we will remain unwritten through history,
no X will mark us on the map;
but in books of prose and poetry
you loved me, in a paragraph" #langleav

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"and as the ages pass, the solid world longs
for its own dissolution." #PaulaMeehan #PaintingRain

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"She didn't know she was dying, but the poems did.
They carried on as usual." #PaulaMeehan #PaintingRain

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength." #Rumi

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." #Rumi

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing, there is a field.
I'll meet you there
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about." #Rumi

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof." #Rumi

[Clara MacRae @resonantquotes]

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?" #Rumi