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Published June 22, 2016

outside the lines

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When I’m with you I see a being that is leaking out everywhere, trying to express itself, trying to resist the pressure of conforming to someone else’s comfort level or some artificially manufactured idea of happiness and beauty, trying to ignore the message that it’s somehow not good enough just the way it is, even though in the deepest reaches of your inside, you know you just want to be heard. I too have often been made small by a culture that is afraid of love, afraid of difference, afraid of colouring outside of the lines, afraid someone might speak a truth so simple and radical that their power-over dynasty would fall like a stack of wooden blocks. Like you, I’m tired of living in this limited reality, this old story, this one-way power game. As Rumi said, “There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.” Let’s use our energy, our synergy, our whole beings, and create a new world!

— heidi kalyani, 2016
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

Published June 14, 2016

being good enough

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Julia Fehrenbacher writes, “Stop asking: am I good enough? Ask only: am I showing up with love?” I am remembering to embrace myself and those things I used to call flaws. I am breathing and acknowledging my readiness for the present moment — for I am ready, even though my conditioning often tells me otherwise. I am learning to be brave with my insights and intuitions, even if I’m the only one who seems to find value in an “ugly weed”. I am forgiving myself for not knowing everything, and realizing that there is wisdom in unknowing, in holding hundreds of seemingly unrelated pieces in my hands without finishing the puzzle. That there is growth in asking, “Do you understand what’s going on?” and even more in living without an answer. Good enough is something to be measured. A rating. A comparison. A competition. Showing up with love is way of propelling ourselves into limitlessness. It’s a radical act of unity. An invitation to connect. To co-operate. It’s a subversive act of opening. A taking down of walls, a remover of judgments and prejudices. An act of profound power and beauty.

— heidi kalyani, 2016
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

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