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“Carl Jung said that after we pass the age of forty, all of our issues are really about our mortality.”

“Certain tribes of indigenous people believe that dream time is our true reality, and that our ‘waking’ hours are merely a time for studying and enacting our dreams.”

Matthew Fox: “There is a sacred wilderness inside every one of us and it needs our attention. We are out of touch with the sacred wilderness of our passions; that is why we see such devastation all around us.”

“All that is fresh, passionate, and creative within us comes from this wild place”

“Maybe she didn’t ‘heal’ me but she saved me so that with time and strength, I could heal myself.”

Max & Raven for me

Healing Into Life & Death (Stephen Levine): “Healing is what happens when we come to our edge, to the unexplored territory of mind and body, and take a single step beyond into the unknown, the space in which all growth occurs…Healing takes away paralyzing fear and gives back power—a power we can use to mend and build a new life.”