Jessica Dore > Quotes

“Everyone knows that sadness and grief are the price of admission for the experiences of joy and connection.”
― Jessica Dore

“When it comes to our habits, there are many ways to intervene. In most cases, we have to be aware of them first.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance and Growth

“revelations, because that’s not how secrets work. The seventy-eight arcana, the mysteries great and small, are to be approached with the respect due to elders, as entities unto themselves whose trust must be earned. As is the case with any companion, where there is curiosity, commitment, respect, and a”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

“The act of taking something you may have once believed to hold little value—like grief, rage, despair, social anxiety—and using it to move toward something precious is a kind of modern-day alchemy.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

“An experience of totality, where all things no matter how seemingly conflicted can exist together and false separations dissolve”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

“The obstacle course of achievement under capitalism isn’t built to teach pathfinding, it’s built to teach compliance with a preset path.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

“Emotions are living energetic currents with life cycles of their own. They tend to survive down the vertical and horizontal lines of human relationships—through generations, through communities—until they arrive to the place where they can be fully experienced and expressed.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

“So first, let's all just acknowledge that the present moment is not some utopian village before we start inviting people here en masse on false pretenses. The present isn't always an easy place to be; it takes skills to be here. Skills that, like all abilities, require practice and usually some unlearning. But here's why this matters, why it's worth doing: The ability to be present is a prerequisite for feeling fulfilled. And if you can't do it here, you won't be able to do it anywhere. If one day, you woke up and all your dreams had come true, without the capacity to be present, you would be just as ill-equipped to enjoy those things as you were before you had them.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth