Ina

“To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.”
― Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Older Women:: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

“To be a green and juicy crone comes from having lived long enough to be deeply rooted in wholehearted involvements, of living a personally meaningful life, however unique, feminist, or traditional it may appear to others. It has to do with knowing who we are inside and believing that what we are doing is a true reflection or expression of our genuine self. It is having what Margaret Mead called PMZ, or postmenopausal zest for the life you have.”
― Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Older Women:: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

“A person (or ego) with a connection to the Self has a sense that what she is doing with her life is meaningful. This can only be known subjectively, it is soul knowledge.”
― Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Older Women:: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

“Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we “gknow” at a soul level, it’s what we know “in our bones.”
― Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Older Women:: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty