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The labyrinth teaches us that if we keep putting one foot in front of the other, we can quiet the mind and find our center. The journey may be difficult, and the lesson is to trust the path: We all need strength for the journey.
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“If I could sum up all my years of clinical training and research in one statement, it would be this: We heal when we can be with what we feel.”
― The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
― The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
“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
“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
“What is harvested in the world is composed of four elements: water, earth, wind, and light. What God harvests is also composed of four elements: faith [pistis], hope [elpis], love [agap], and contemplation [gnosis]. Our earth is faith, for she gives us roots. Water is our hope, for it slakes our thirst. Wind [pneuma] is the love [agap] through which we grow; and light is the contemplation [gnosis] through which we ripen.”
― 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
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