When you truly love yourself, discipline becomes second nature. You deserve to feel and look your absolute best, and pushing yourself to step outside of your comfort zone will expand your experiences in amazing ways. Practicing self-love will help you effortlessly align with the discipline you need to live your best life.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother. Of late she plays still gayer pranks. Not only she deprives organizations, but organs, of a necessary end. She enables people to read with the top of the head, and see with the pit of the stomach. Presently she will make a female Newton, and a male Syren. Man partakes of the feminine in the Apollo, woman of the Masculine as Minerva. Let us be wise and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white. Jove sprang from Rhea, Pallas from Jove. So let it be.

Don't you ever think that a sweet, lovely, educated, good looking woman is soft. To become a lovely, well-mannered, well-spoken lady she worked on her character every single day. To be a highly educated woman she studied, focused and maintained discipline for years to achieve her goals. To look that good she works out every day, she eats healthy, takes care of herself and keeps a routine. She prioritises good habits. She works on herself every single day.

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

Set boundaries sister, if they respect them they’ll respect you.

What is dark feminine energy? The dark feminine is one-half of the divine feminine. She is not the negative, shadow aspect of the feminine but rather the dark, fiery, transformational aspect of womanhood. The birth, death, and rebirth cycle is at the center of our story as women and at the center of mother earth.

There is ice on the lake nowWhere swans used to swimI don’t know if I can standThis air of fear and isolationTheir ghosts right thereBefore my eyesGraceful Gliding Diving their headsShooting out of the water DrippingThey quiverFor a moment