Sublime

The promise was unconditional: no more running away from my thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations. My experiences and I would succeed or fail together—as a collective, as a kind of family—all of us together.

Lack of loving acceptance for parts of the self originates every imbalance that manifests in the Body.

and how to close the gap between who you really are in your inner, private world and how you appear in the outer, social world.

controlled half of the relationship, my half.

It is a world worth making, a world worth living in, a world in which there is a prevailing and decent wild sanity.

But, unless she practices her inner and outer freedoms regularly, submission, passivity, and time spent in captivity dull her innate gifts of vision, perception, confidence, and so forth, the ones she needs for standing on her own.

When a woman has a collapsing mother construct within her psyche and/or her culture, she is wobbly about her worth. She may feel that choices between fulfilling outer demands and the demands of soul are life-and-death issues. She may feel like a tormented outsider who belongs nowhere—which is relatively normal for the exile—but what is not normal i

creativity, courage, curiosity, a sense of connection, compassion, clarity, calm, confidence.