The Fire Inside

To pursue as a woman is to instigate. The word “agency” gets thrown around, but it feels wrung of any glamour or excitement. The woman is chasing. She asks, “What do I want?” Sometimes the answer doesn’t come right away or maybe the destination is far off—like scenes of dinners al fresco, or a life of leisure filled with curb-to-car shoes. The seek

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects h

”I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe

“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”

• Hildegard Von Bingen

I’m noticing so many different frameworks map into the same “quaternity” (a cross, plus-sign, looking things, composed of two spectrums that criss-cross).

(direction) My word, Jung’s word, Gebser’s word, from Rooster’s diagram:

• (up) Mindfulness, Sensation, Archaic, Sacramental

• (down) Perspective, Intuition, Mythical, Gnostic

• (right) Creativity, Feeling

"Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other ... When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around h

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

― Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they a

“You had to withstand a profound sense of wrongness if you ever wanted to get somewhere new”

• Miranda July in All Fours