Stephanie

“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.”
― Dogen Zenji

“I am talking about something more than just the gauzy circle of life. Sure, you're older now and one day you're going to die, but before that, you have to *die*. Your child has arrived and the battle has been joined. It is the battle to the death of your ego. The demise of your selfishness and impatience. The end of your idle distractions and carelessness. The decline and fall of Numero Uno. Or so you must pray, because in this contest, you must lose or lose quickly. Pray that you will never bear the shattered consequences of winning when your child's safety, trust, and happiness are the casualties.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood