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“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.”
― Osho