Kate Smalley

Words are really honest presences. They always show what’s going on. Show me the words you use and I’ll have a fair ideas of what’s happening or not happening with you.

"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”

— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go

"The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities

The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.

"You can’t find peace by avoiding life."

— Virginia Woolf

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.