A selfish definition, a sudden light meaning...

Light within ...

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."

- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man and Prison Writings

Light beam 

'Despite attempts to undo colonialism's effects on the black psyche, the colonial stigma against African religions seems to be hardest to shake off...


Indigenous religions were not only outlawed but literally demonized not just on the continent but across the entire black diaspora."

Verona Spence-Adofo

Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one's courage. - Anais Nin 

AS Luck Would Have IT.

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've

never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people

who do. Luck to me is something else: hard

work -- and realizing what is opportunity and

what isn't." -Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne

Noemie barely in skirt & heels on beach !!!!

Star People

Gabriel W. Alazam VII

Nov. 5, 2013

Remember this:

children walking together in the rain

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

HEALING IN THE DARKNESS???

Native American dancer by Raymond Haddad

"There will be no place to heal while the killing continues." – Scott Royder

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The deep fears of our European relatives have run amok long years, and understanding them is still a great and compelling mysterious force in the world. How does the ice melt from the heart and mind? How can any assist in our own healings? There are a great many questions to connect us to each other's grief and expressions of pain. Perhaps it is a sense of isolation our white relatives feel? In this century our closeness with and to each other should have revealed the answers to the questions posed.

Perhaps it is as Scott Royder said, “There will be no place to heal while the killing continues."

 

Perhaps not. Even killing grounds can be made into sacred space. But, Sacred space is not part of the modern agenda as many of the things we need to become whole people are not in place... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.26.13

Kill the wolves in idaho

PRESENCE in black

principal ballerina of ABT
Misty Copeland

"... principles in black are not necessarily identified by race, or culture. They are the mysteries, the mysterious things we hum about unconsciously conjuring them up from below, and within us by intent."
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
4.15.13

Civilized RED

Yesterday a long time ago... 

BRIDE-TO-BE

Instagram Chicks

Patrycja Gabanga
http://icismiley.com/girls/patrycjagabana/page/1.html
August 30, 2013

Patrycja Gabanga
#3757

"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets." 

- Marilyn Monroe

Self Discovery

Marilyn Monroe in diamonds.
Portraits

"To find one's self you really need to get lost." - Lillian Helga Roi 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

"The real troubles of this world. Lie within each and every one of us. When we realize that, and work on gaining some self-control. The rest will fall into place. Blessings to All, and may you find Peace." - Eddie C Kunze

image from gallery of Eddie C Kunze
July 11, 2013

IN English, en Francais

Originality is for those artists who don't know who their influences are. I much prefer authenticity." ~ Damian Siqueiros, photographer 29.05.13

L'originalité c'est pour ces artistes qui ne savent pas qui sont leur influences. Moi, je préfère l'authenticité! - Damian Siqueiros

Jennifer Lopez

"The Heart and the Brain are the two most elastic parts of the Human Body." - Damian Siqueiros

"Le coeur et le cerveau sont les deux parties du corps les plus souples du corps humain." - Damian Siqueiros, 29.05.13

ALPHA & OMEGA

"The universe begins and ends with each of us and it is based entirely upon our own perceptions. If the universe seems to be crowding in on you with negative things adjust your thinking and use the negative to bring about some positive result.. Negative things must exist to bring balance to our perception of the universe but we do not need for the negative things to bring us down and make us miserable..." - James Moss

STEP AHEAD

Mary J. Blidge
... another woman to study and take seriously in our evaluations of self, of being, of identity and place in the 21st century!!  - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
Nov. 2, 2012

TRAIT of a Warrior

Women Starting Over and Working It Out

Contrasts in Progress

"EMBRACE"
Shelby Chesnes by Joey Wright.
was Playboy's July 2012 Playmate

The Women in the World Summit was launched by Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, in 2010 and is sponsored by the The Daily Beast and Newsweek. "Pushing up against the glass ceiling is a luxury." Brown said in her opening speech on Thursday (April 4). "Try being a woman in Congo or Pakistan or Somalia... Our mission is not just to 'lean in' but to lean on corporations, prosecutors, pimps... brothers who murder their sisters, clerics who turn a blind eye, entire governments..." and all who try to shut down women's empowerment around the world. By Sarah B. Weir, Yahoo! blogger

Warriors face to face from Mohawk Warrior Society

mother with gun & child

mother's protest

BODY PERFECTION is in the eye

Bonnielee Cuevas

"Bringing together all the components of the essential and authentic you is an achievement expected to be accomplished in a lifetime." - Gregory E. Woods 9.10.12

Bonnielee Cuevas  posing in a
Volup2.com May 2012 "Feminine Issue"

GAZE WITH WONDER!!

DEBRA GIBSON
POETESS, COMPOSER, SINGER & LIGHT WORKER

"Cast your eyes not upon the vastness of the ocean or the luminosity of the night sky unless you also gaze with wonder at the limitless capacity of the love in your own heart and the potential clarity and brightness of your own mind." ~ Debra Gibson 

INTEGRITY

Michelle Obama in
2012

“One Of The Things That You Learn As President Is That What You Say Matters, And Your Principles Matter. And Sometimes, You’ve Got To Fight For Things That You Believe In And You Can’t Just Switch On A Dime” 

— President Barack Obama, at the Democratic National Convention in 2012

Songs in the Key of SoulBEloved #124

Ngaronoa Mereana Taki, Maori Grandmother-Teacher
March 3, 2012

“Absolutes exist where we place them within us.” 

- Gregory E. Woods,

Keeper of Stories 8/19/12

"‎...there aren't any whatsoever. absolutes are posing az ...not inwardly nor outwardly ...there is a play on thematics which is stripped naked when words realise their own limits in the hinterlands of cognitive schemas ...windows to the heart stargate of the Souls infinitude." 

- Ngaronoa Mereana Taki (8/19/12)

LOVING, the mystery of...

"It is in the face the story is told of who you are, and who you aren't. It is an old, an ancient way of telling stories to people you know, love, don't know, hate, like, need and don't need. Your people's history, its contradictions and its deep relationships with higher realms of Being is the beauty of and within your face. In your face are the complex stories of needs, and feelings wanting and waiting to be accepted, and validated, and there is the ever present poem; the songs unheralded by lovers, and the perpetual motion of newness. It is in you the mystery of being beautiful and unheard; seen, and accepted as being beautiful and easy to the eyes. The story, your story, is as beautiful in your face as it is in the memory I will hold of this moment." 

- Gregory E. Woods (told august 2, 2012)

.. a lot of trust makes two into lovers.

family - Wes, Denisia & the baby