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“If people were never desperate, if there was no fear or danger, we would not need courage. Do you think I fought so much because I was content and the choice was easy?
“And the word for breath is the same as the word for spirit; this is true not only in Hebrew (ruakh), but also in Greek (pneuma) and Latin (spiritus). Thus Yeshua and Miriam shared the same breath and allowed themselves to be borne by the same spirit.”
― The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union
― The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“The Goddess is the unspeakable wisdom that grows into the very cells of the body. She lives with this sacramental truth at her center: the beauty and the horror of the whole of life are blazing in Her love. She is dancing in the flames.”
― Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
― Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
“I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.”
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“There is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
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