“Mother is a pragmatic word – how many people consider that the mother is the Great Archetype because each human being comes through the mother and the Great Mother is the constancy in human life as well as in spiritual life that provides a bridge….”
Angeles Arrien
“It is tragic what we are doing to this planet and we just massacre the Mother, and we massacre the mother inside of ourselves, because the compassion, the love, the beingness, the presence that makes life worth living, that makes Life, is in that archetype, the bridge between the concept of deep self and the capacity to love, and so when that archetype is lost or foresaken we will have more violence in the world….”
Marion Woodman
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it…….The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.” Unknown
meanwhile, on another planet
in a different universe
where time is a field of stars
that are really holes in the fabric of reality
letting the light of the dreamworld through
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