Kellie

“The sense of loss these women express is a yearning for the feminine, a longing for a sense of home within their own bodies and community. Most women today have spent their early and mid-adulthood developing and fine-tuning qualities that have always been considered masculine, including skills in logical, direct linear thinking, analyzing, and setting short-range goals. Women who brought emotions into the workplace were quickly told they did not belong there. Although many companies are now training upper management in a more feminine or “Beta-style” mode of leadership, which values feelings, intuition, and relationship, many women complain of undervaluing the feminine part of themselves.”
― Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

“I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will commit your whole life to trying. Every second you have is somehow for it.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Your river of feelings might feel like it’s flowing over you, but actually you’re the river’s source.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

“As Ram Dass puts it, “The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.”
― Connie Zweig, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul