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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.”

— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Of Roots & Wilderness: Stars Beneath Us- Autumn Rosario Hall

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Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own

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fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

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Dimitra Milan

https://dimitramilan.com

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"To discover who you really are, you must go beyond who you think you are. To find peace, you must go beyond fear. To experience unconditional love, you must go beyond conditional love"

- Deepak Chopra, Metahuman

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“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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"Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?"

- Chuck Palahniuk

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Caro Arevalo

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“And after years of hearing the heart-cry of women, I am convinced beyond a doubt of this: God wants to be loved. He wants to be a priority to someone. How could we have missed this? From cover to cover, from beginning to end, the cry of God’s heart is, “Why won’t you choose Me?” It is amazing to me how humble, how vulnerable God is on this point. “You will … find me,” says the Lord, “when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). In other words, “Look for me, pursue me – I want you to pursue me.” Amazing. As Tozer says, “God waits to be wanted.”

— ~ John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul              (via:anchoredinChrist4ever)

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If you want to change the world, love a man; really love him.

Choose the one whose soul calls to yours clearly; who sees you; who is brave enough to be afraid. Accept his hand and guide him gently to your hearts blood, where he can feel your warmth upon him and rest there.

Look into his eyes and see there his fathers and grandfathers and all the wars and madness their spirits fought. Look upon their pains and struggles and torments and guilt; without judgment. And let it all go.

Feel into his ancestral burden, and know that what he seeks is safe refuge in you. Let him melt in your steady gaze, and know that you need not mirror that rage.

Because you have a womb, a sweet, deep gateway to wash and renew old wounds.

Sit before him, in the full majesty of your woman in the breath of your vulnerability. In the play of your child innocence in the depths of your death. Flowering invitation, softly yielding, allowing his power as a man, to step forward towards you.. and swim in the earth’s womb, in silent knowing, together.

And when he retreats.. flees in fear to his cave, be still.. and wait patiently for his return. Sit and sing by his door, a song of remembrance, that he may be soothed, once more. And whether his mother held him or could not, show him the true mother now. Hold him and guide him in your grace and your depth. 

Smoldering in the center of the Earth’s core.

Cry for him sweet rivers. Bleed it all back home.

Love him enough to open your body and soul to the cycle of birth and of death. And thank him for the opportunity, as you dance together through the raging winds and silent woods. Be brave enough to be fragile and let him drink in the soft, heady petals of your being.

Let him know he can hold you, stand up and protect you. Fall back into his arms and trust him to catch you, even if you’ve been dropped a thousand times before.

Teach him how to surrender by surrendering yourself. And merge into the sweet nothing, of this worlds’ heart.

Encourage him, feed him, allow him, hear him, hold him, heal him. And you, in turn, will be nourished and supported and protected, By strong arms and clear thoughts and focused arrows. Because he can, if you let him, be all that you dream.

~ An edited poem by @hisdivinefeminine originally by Lauren Wilce

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“Like Solomon’s lover, God is going up and down the streets of the city, traveling the most obscure paths and untamed wilderness, walking on unnamed roads in the most desolate of places, searching for the one he loves—and that one is you and me and every human being who has ever walked this earth, has taken a breath, and has longed for love.”

— Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings