There is another kind of pain that comes not from losing beautiful things but from never even trying for them. - Glennon Doyle

What if I don't need your permission slip because I'm already free?

We are all bilingual. We speak the language of indoctrination, but our native tongue is the language of imagination. When we use the language of indoctrination — with its should and shouldn't, right and wrong, good and bad — we are activating our minds. That's not what we're going for here. Because our minds are polluted by our training. In order to get beyond our training, we need to activate our imaginations. Our minds are excuse makers; our imaginations are storytellers. So instead of asking ourselves what's right or wrong, we must ask ourselves: What is true and beautiful?

Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.