“Is there an odyssey the female soul longs to make at the approach of fifty – one that has been blurred and lost within a culture awesomely alienated from soul? If so, what sort of journey would that be? Where would it take me?”
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
“So, you are saying that one should always take the ‘people can change’ premise? PHILOSOPHER: Of course. And, please understand, it is Freudian aetiology that denies our free will, and treats humans like machines.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“The best gift she has given me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.”
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
“I only vaguely understood at the time the ways that I myself was on my knees, how in need I was of taking back my soul as a woman. The episode propelled me into a collision with the patriarchal underpinning of my church, my faith tradition, my culture, my marriage, and, most illuminating of all, me. It sent me in search of the feminine dimension of God. It began a spiritual cataclysm. My old life dissolved and a new life, a new consciousness, rose up.”
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
“The two most powerful impulses in my life have been the urge to create and the urge to be – a set of opposites – and they have always clunked into each other. How very like them to do so right now.”
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
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