Ria Smart

“The only way to logically determine what, if anything, is actually true is to be open to the possibility that none of it is. If it’s true, you don’t have to protect it—questioning it deeply only reveals more and strengthens it.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“By not participating in the machine, the individual becomes a fool and an outcast. Great pressures of conformity will mount up from all sides for anyone who begins to flounder about in the throes of awakening.”
― Lyam Thomas Christopher, Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation: A Complete Course

“Memories are comfy too, they are swaddling bands, they wrap you up warm like a mummy. What moment is there in life that is not already a memory?”
― Violette Leduc, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

“We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilised vase on the table.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging