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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has…
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Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
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When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and…
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…
— Carl Sagan
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For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,…
— Merlin Stone
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My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.
— Elisa Jimenez
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I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo…
— Pearl Bailey
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If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't…
— Rachilde
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Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you…
— Ann Miller
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I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic…
— Edith Wharton
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Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love…
— Carter Heyward
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Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
— Tom Robbins
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