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- To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from…
- The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the…
- A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou…
- To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east…
- When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would…
- When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable…
- Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the…
- Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the…
- ...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
- Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,…
- Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till…
- Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.…
- Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
- It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there…
- One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.…
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