Nicole Daedone

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The writings and musings of Nicole Daedone

People are made up of moving parts—many drivers, many motivations.
What we call “manipulation” is, more often than not, an unmet need. A need someone does not know how to ask for directly.

To design a future, one must have a destination. True design works backward—you map from the endpoint to where you stand.

It is acceptable to be a sexual woman in our culture—but only within the right parameters. Be sexy, but don’t be too sexual. Be intelligent, but don’t be too embodied. As if those things are 
mutually exclusive.

To live artfully is to master the flow between inspiration and form, allowing desire to move through us unfiltered.
True fulfillment comes not from accumulation, but from the precision of what the soul calls forth. 

The Erotic view on asexuality is that there is no such thing as asexuality. Not in the way we conceive of it. We are in the throes of the universe making love with itself. We are sex.

From the profound to the profane, the invitation of Eros is to incarnate into our own lives.

Eros does not pretend to know what is right or wrong in every situation for every person. It does not offer wholesale directives. Instead, it suggests that power lies in wisdom, and true wisdom only happens when we listen.

We cannot wake up alone because we cannot take ourselves out of control. We cannot press our own buttons and we do not know who we are within the finite limitations of control.

We have been conditioned to fear Eros—not because Eros harms, but because its
distortion does. In response, we retreat, abandoning our post, allowing greed, exploitation, and oppression to thrive while blaming Eros itself. 

In Eros,
we are liberated from
the mindset that would tell us there is somewhere we need to get to and
we should hurry there.