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trina marie's avatar

“transforming yourself so deeply that your presence becomes activism.”👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Naley's avatar

🤍🤍

Lucia Honey's avatar

Super pertinent timing. Thanks for saying this.

liz cooke's avatar

This is a great angle, and almost the inverse ( both true) of my current Substack main reading which addresses the LACK of activism in spiritual communities. For example the bulk of American Buddhist communities that have failed to speak out, or speak at all in the genocide in Palestine. Prioritising some kind of gaslit inner peace, donors, "reputation."

Really I think this is a line we must all learn to walk. Personal liberation and collective liberation co-existing. Learning how to be in both worlds. Not using our spirituality to bypass suffering or our activism to become disconnected and super low.

stel's avatar

you have no idea how needed and impactful this was. thank you ♥️

Naley's avatar

sending you a big hug and much love

Jordan Yellow's avatar

Thank you

Naley's avatar

🙏🏽🙏🏽

Jay's avatar

As an 18 yr old girl who has been feeling like I’m drowning in information right now I can’t explain how incredibly eye opening this was to read. The line about waiting on everyone else to tell you who you are hit so hard. I will be taking a step back from all the noise and discovering who I am and not letting others decide that for me.

P P's avatar

"All of it arrives once you stop begging the world to tell you who you are and start listening inward." Wow ❤️🙏🏾

Rani Kumar's avatar

“your peace becomes your rebellion” my new mantra. Ty Naley!

Juliet Diaz's avatar

I missed you! Been off social media since early this year (deleted all the accounts). My book The Altar Within speaks on the groundwork for both inner and collective liberation. Decolonizing wellness and guiding pro through the unveiling. A lot of what you said is in alignment with my the work I’ve been doing with my community for years and it is so much more vital now. I’ll be reaching out to you soon! Lots to catch up on 💋

marwi's avatar

thanks for this mind-blowing perspective and I love your writing! It’s also important to notice that the ones in power, the ones who want to distract us, destabilize our bodies and minds, who are eventually trying to control us, have to take away our peace first. that’s why in order to be able to criticize this system and fight it, we have to be at peace, be in harmony with ourselves, concentrate on our souls.

Paloma B. Concordia's avatar

This is beautiful, thank you! Also an affirmation I’ve been on the right path and to continue the journey ✊🏽

Rose's avatar

My last post is a meditation for anyone who experiences freeze/dissociation in general (but context was sexual trauma because of the Epstein files). I really enjoyed reading this thank you

Anela Ryan's avatar

just what i needed today 🌱

mar's avatar

Recently I’ve been researching a lot on the ancient practices of meditation within Hinduism. Exploring the scripture has broadly taught me exactly what you’ve written here. Thanks for sharing, this is really valuable.

Isabella Carrera's avatar

Omg 🥹 need more of this! It’s me