Shelby

“What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.”
― Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

“Dread is anxiety on steroids.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabulary of science we desire. We want a language of that different yield. A yield rich as the harvests of the earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and resort that will carry out to others.”
― Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World