Mar/April books and quotes
Mar/April books and quotes
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
“While you cannot crawl back into the uterus again, you can return to the soul-home. It is not only possible, it is requisite.
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Home is a sustained mood or sense that allows us to experience feelings not necessarily sustained in the mundane world: wonder, vision, peace, freedom from worry, freedom from demands, freedom from constant clacking.
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Although there are many physical places one can go to ‘feel’ her way back to this special home, the physical place itself is not home; it is only the vehicle that rocks the ego to sleep so that we can go the rest of the way by ourselves. The vehicle through and by which women reach home are many: music, art, forest, ocean spume, sunrise, solitude. These take us home to a nutritive inner world that has ideas, order and sustenance all of its own.”
2. Flowers on the Moon by Billy Chapata
“notes on healing:
wounds need air to breathe, to heal. concealing your wounds with bandages only slows down your healing. confront your wounds, bring them out in the open, ask them why they still hurt, ask them what they require to be soothed—ask your wounds important questions.”
3. Nowhere fro very long by Brianna Madia
“Somewhere deep in my gut, I’d known that my quest to ‘settle down’ was a sham. I was just playing a role I'd seen:; doing things because it seemed like I was supposed to, not because I actually wanted to. I’d toddled into that mortgage loan meeting like a child in her mother’s high heels, clumsy and clueless.
Being behind the wheel of that van felt honest. Perhaps because uncertainty felt more like home than anything else.
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I was breaking the rules. Rules we all learned before we even realized we were learning them.”
4. Happy Days by Gabrielle Bernstein
“To undo the past, we must become compassionate toward our present selves".”
