Helen M. Luke > Quotes

“The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.”
― Helen M. Luke, The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine

“Nothing is a blinding as neurotic self-pity. We walk around in a fog.”
― Helen M. Luke, Old Age

“Deeply ingrained in the infantile cycle is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the cure for depression is to replace it with pleasant happy feelings, whereas the only valid cure for any kind of depression lies in the acceptance of the real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply a palliative, minus foundations for the next depression. The roots of our neurosis lie here, and the conflict between the longing for growth and freedom and our incapacity or refusal to pay the price and suffering of the kind which challenge is the supremacy of the ego's demands”
― Helen M. Luke, The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine