Marlene

“For people who’ve experienced trauma, mindfulness meditation can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress.”
― David A. Treleaven, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I believe she's blown some dust off her heart.”
― Kate Maloy, Every Last Cuckoo

“Spiritual but not religious” is an expression of a very human yearning for an opening of mind and heart—a sense of soul and spirit that enhances day-to-day experience instead of tamping it down and channeling it into the narrow confines of stick-and-carrot orthodoxy. It’s a rejection of traditional tenets and pieties, of doctrine and dogma and judgment. It resists the usual attempts to pigeonhole, saying, “Spare me your labels.” It is, at heart, agnostic. —”
― Lesley Hazleton, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto