In my own stories about spiritual experience, just as in the stories I received as a child, the truth, if there is truth, is seen “through a glass, darkly.”3 To me, this means that no matter how deeply or widely we study, there is always more to be seen, and no one sees all that there is to see. I do not believe there is or ever has been anyone who

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 used to tell this story, about my theory of fucks. The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have. […]

I still tell this story but I’ve changed it somewhat. Like most

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

- Georgia O’Keeffe

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

“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