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Book cover for Shakti Rising: Embracing Shadow and Light on the Goddess Path to Wholeness
My life was the perfect example of persistent seeking until I turned thirty. The deep sense of lack drove me to seek one success after another, but no achievement brought lasting peace and instead created an escalating inner conflict.
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Tara Westover
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Elena Ferrante
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante
“Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.”
Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

W. Somerset Maugham
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Elizabeth Gilbert
“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by the laws of gravity. The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth seeking journey either internally or externally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some of the most difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be witheld from you”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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