Inspiration
"To foster the child within is to foster joy... "
- Eva Figes
Becoming
"Now I become myself. It's taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people's faces,
Run madly...
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
All fuses now, falls into place
Gathered into one intense
Gesture of growing..."
- May Sarton
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. When we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen."
- Henry Thoreau
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Roots
“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.”
- Sylvia Plath
"Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable,
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear..."
- Indigo Girls
""How many of us have responded to early damage by growing more thickly, by making more flowers than we might otherwise have done? ... Just as the seed must grow beneath the ground establishing firm roots to uphold its growth, so our inner growth must be well rooted and nourished, until it is ready to be harvested."
- Patricia Monaghan
Mirrors
"My therapist ... had always used the metaphor of a fun house mirror to describe how we make sense of our families of origin. For a decade she'd been shepherding me away from my weird, wobbly ... freak reflections into a brand-new way of seeing myself, clear as Baccarat crystal."
- Jill Soloway
"You need two things in a relationship. You need the will to make it work and you need to be able to make compromises. It's not hard to be right, but then you are right and alone."
- Esther Perel
"A thoughtful response will always be based in love rather than power. A free response will embody relatedness. We can see the truth of this when we remember that the way we treat the other is always the way we treat our inner selves."
- Barbara Stevens Sullivan
Found
"Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything...
That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
"In the shadow is the gold."
-C G Jung
"The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free."
- Rollo May
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
"Say grace - say grace
Forgive yourself for all of your mistakes
You can start all over if that's what it takes
Come inside and set yourself a place
And say grace."
- Gretchen Peters
"Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through a new identity and new purpose..."
- Rebecca Solnit
”One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began..“
- Mary Oliver
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