“Maybe at times we need to crumble to the ground at the magnificence of it all, awestruck at the bounty laid out before us. To fall apart. To fail. To get back up. To be humbled again. To start over. To be a beginner. An amateur at the ways of love. To make this journey with our kindred travelers and the sun, moon, and stars. And to realize together how little we know in the face of it all.”
― A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
― A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“Intuitive insights are like fish in the water; they flash in the sunlight and then dive deep again, only enticed to the surface again by morsels of conscious attention.”
― Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
― Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
― Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
― Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
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