I love Laurel Holloman, who is best known for playing Tina Kennard in the groundbreaking series, The L Word for many reasons. I admire her character, her charity work and open heart and her artistic talent and creativity. She is a “celebrity” that I actually feel good about admiring and consider an inspiring role model. Some beautiful pictures along with an insightful interview with her appear in the December issue of the UK based, Diva magazine which I I downloaded on my iPad to read last night. The entire article was delicious but my absolute favorite passage from her is quoted below as it speaks to me of a place I am trying to get to myself. Thanks for that Laurel Holloman.
Every day I strive to get to a place where I’m not affected by the external world, and I don’t use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It’s really just shutting out the noise.
"The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur"
— A.N. Whitehead
"The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."
— Walter Karp
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
— James Oppenheim
"I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
— Diane Ackerman
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit"
— Edward Abbey
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. "
— Herm Albright
"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words."
— Rachel Naomi Remen
