"To Listen a soul into disclosure and discovery is the greatest service a human being can do for another."

~ Quaker Saying

"Understanding the nature of impermanence and the importance of ceremonially marking life changes has enabled our human psyche to meet its very nature and to track its own journey around the wheel of our becoming-ness for thousands of years. With most of this knowledge absent in modern society we are missing a major healing modality that has the potential, not to medicate, fix, or suppress, but to validate and partner the excruciating journey through grief, loss, or life-threatening illness into the promise of an initiated life."

~ Petra Lentz Snow

"Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened."

~ Pema Chodren

Listen, 

are you breathing just a little,

and calling it life?

~ Mary Oliver

(excerpt from poem: Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?)

“Whatever your story, you no longer need to be alone with it. This is what will allow your healing to begin.”

~ Carl Rogers

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

~ Madeleine Albright

"For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same ... I hope you live a life you 're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."

~ Osho

"I wonder how many people I've looked at my entire life and never seen."

~ John Steinback

"For respect to come to you, you must respect yourself first.

And for you to respect yourself, you've got to make contact with that part in you that is worthy of respect.

Not your will, but a deeper part of your being."

~ Ram Dass

"Sitting and waiting is such an awful way to live... Creating projects is really what's happening these days. The chance to participate in your own career is a lot more exciting than just hoping that it all works out."

~ Greta Gerwig

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone."

~ Audrey Hepburn

"Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners that most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him."

~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

~ Lady Bird Johnson

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

~ Jean-Paul Sarte

"Do not listen to people who think they have all the answers. Nobody is your savior, except you and perhaps a God you do or do not pray to. Read things that make you feel, that challenge what you think you know. Get fired up. Push yourself beyond those ten feet in front of you. Let yourself be pissed the fuck off. Maybe if you get angry enough, you'll change your damn life. Maybe if you let yourself be consumed by envy or anger or frustration or disappointment, you will finally do what it takes to make yourself happy."

~ Jamie Varon

"I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen... Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile."

~ Hellen Mirren

"We don't receive wisdom; we discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for user spare us."

~ Marcel Proust