Kate Smalley

"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

What qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken? 

There is no self that will survive a real conversation.

“If you are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”

— Rumi

“Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (p196)

"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."

— Gunilla Brodde Norris