Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
Interpretation
Recognizing our emotions empowers us to pursue joy in all aspects of life.
This quote by Audre Lorde emphasizes the importance of emotional awareness and the profound impact it has on our lives. By acknowledging our capacity for deep feelings such as love and joy, we become motivated to cultivate these emotions across all areas of our existence, leading to a more fulfilling and joyful life.
In practice
This quote can inspire a group discussion on emotional intelligence at a workshop.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees
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