Jenna

“Einstein taught us that time doesn’t flow in one direction. It spirals. The future and the past exist simultaneously. One of the things people in my condition think about is what am I really afraid of when I face — rather up close and personal — my own death? Pain? That can be controlled. Abandonment? Perhaps. But the larger fear may be that we’re most afraid of being free of time. Outside time. When you’re outside of time, you’re no longer in control. S-C-A-R-Y!”
― Karen Speerstra, The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying

“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea that to find an authentic center we have to wander lonely beaches and sleep under hedges, longing for something we know is lost. To make a place in us for a small, cultivated altar to the bird that flew away.” And, “This intensely mysterious experience is solitary in nature—a conscious break from society—but requires the warmth and subtlety of a return to community to help grow the seeds that can flower from such an experience.”
― Martin Shaw, A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness