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#1

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#2

“imagine the desert
mothers, with hair tangled
tighter than their theology
and breasts that flowed milk
and mystic wisdom. they
knew how to draw the singing
sigils in the sand, how to dig
rough and bitten fingers
into desiccated dirt for water
to wet the lips of their young.

women of hips and heft, who
learned how to burn
beneath the wild and searing
sun, who made loud love
against the star-flecked threat
of night, who knew that strength
is not always a matter of muscle.

imagine your ancestresses,
the prophetesses of the arid
lands, before these starched
traditions and pews too hard
to pray from, who bled true
ritual and birthed their own fierce
souls at creation's crowning --”
― Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul

tags: dark-night, desert, divine-feminine, faith, god, goddess, mystic, poem, poetry, religion, spirituality

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#3

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, art

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#4

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

tags: growth, life, maturity

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#5

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#6

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#7

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

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#8

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

tags: wisdom

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#9

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

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#10

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
― Hafiz

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#11

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
― Hafiz

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#12

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

“The end is never worth the beginning.”
― Vali Myers, Vali Myers

tags: mortality

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#15

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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#16

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

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#17

“Well I haven't fucked much with the past,
But I've fucked plenty with the future.

- Babelogue”
― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

tags: lyrics

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#18

“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

tags: poetry-performed-by-patti-smith

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#19

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: fire, love, magic, women

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#20

“For some she came in a dream. For others in words as clear as a bell: it is time, I am here. She may come in a whisper so loud she can deafen you or a shout so quiet you strain to hear. She may appear in the waves or the face of the moon, in a red goddess or a crow.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

tags: divine-feminine, goddess, priestess, sacred-feminine, wise-woman

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#21

“The deep Feminine, the mystery of consciousness, She who is life, is longing for our transformation as much as we are. She holds back, allowing us free reign to choose, nudging us occasionally with synchronicities, illness, births and deaths… But when we make space for Her, she rushes into all the gaps, engulfing us with her desire for life and expression. This is what She longs for, this is what we are for: experiencing the Feminine through ourselves. We simply need to slow down, and find where to put our conscious attention. And it is this, this willingness to look again, this willingness to put consciousness onto our places of unconscious, to express what we have always avoided, which starts the process of unblocking, so that She may flow through.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

tags: consciousness, divine-feminine, feminine, goddess, goddess-quotes, sacred-feminine, wise-woman, women-s-wisdom

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#22

“Who is She? She is your power, your Feminine source. Big Mama. The Goddess. The Great Mystery. The web-weaver. The life force. The first time, the twentieth time you may not recognize her. Or pretend not to hear. As she fills your body with ripples of terror and delight.

But when she calls you will know you’ve been called. Then it is up to you to decide if you will answer.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

tags: burning-woman, calling, divine-feminine, feminine-power, goddess, mystery, priestess, sacred-feminine, she, the-call, wise-woman

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#23

“we have forgotten that we were born
of celestial cataclysm.

we have forgotten how to dance
bare-footed on the earth to the cadence
of our souls. we have forgotten the ritual
fires and the acrid tang of holy smoke
on our tongues.”
― Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul

tags: divine-feminine, god, poetry, spirituality

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#24

“now I'm blinking in a new gloaming
and all I see as I'm stretched low down here
is a world of women flat on their frozen
faces. we are the ground itself, corporeal
carpet of cells, softness calloused hard
beneath the pebbled soles of the fathers
and husbands and brothers and priests

and it's a horror if you could see it,
a world of women ruined
by man's fear.”
― Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul

tags: divine-feminine, feminism, poetry, women, women-and-men

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#25

“do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindness –

when the full and weeping
moon steps from the shade
of a tumult of mountains –

when, in the fragrant dim,
day's tree stump transforms
into some nether-worldly other –

when time's skin is thin and you are
bared – when there is nothing
between you and the Wildest One

whose name is your own?”
― Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul

tags: dark-night-of-the-soul, divine-feminine, doubt, faith, god, mystic, poetry, spirituality-of-imperfection, wild

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#26

“Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O’Donohue points to this when he says that “behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.”
― Meghan Don, The New Divine Feminine: Spiritual Evolution for a Woman's Soul

tags: being, being-yourself, celtic-spirituality, divine-feminine, divine-inspiration, divine-self, feminine, ground-reality, groundedness, john-o-donohue, rest, sacred-teachings, sacred-wisdom, sacredness, sacredness-of-life, self-awareness, self-realization, soul

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