Journey to the Dark Goddess Quotes

“As a very basic guideline, when someone else asks for your yes in a situation that is good for them, but not for you, your yes is not required and may be harmful to your ability to say any genuine yes to life.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“I will be the mad woman; the broken, crazy one. I will scream and screech and rend my face and tear my hair. I will be vulnerable, feel everything, every arrow aimed at me, all the suffering that comes my way I will not seek to hold it back it will sweep over, through me and I will be flecks on the surface of it, broken apart. I have no defenses, everything comes in at me all at once and I cannot hold together, any longer.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“My love and sympathy flow towards her. Oh, what a mess you have got yourself into. Never mind; never mind, love; all can be undone. You are the one who undoes everything. Here is the compassion of the Dark Goddess.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“The world we have created does not encourage or promote leave-of-absences. It does not promote deep contemplation, especially the type with no time-frame.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“There is no why – no question and no answer. You cannot ask the Dark Goddess why – she is her own why. Your questions – my questions – are less than the dust beneath her throne.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“The deepest shadow is cast by the strongest light is not just a metaphor; it is literal truth. In”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“We all enter into fallow periods in our lives, times of questioning, of crisis, of not-knowing; times of depression, stagnation, terror and loss. We return from them; changed. Later we enter them again. There is no ceasing of this pattern. And it is by attempting to halt the pattern – to avoid the pain/fear/loss part of it – that we cause the greatest damage to ourselves.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“Other times we know perfectly well what to do, but in the face of little or no support – or sometimes actual obstacles placed in our way – it takes a very long time and much suffering to emerge out the other side. I have watched women trying to come off highly addictive anti-depressants as an example of this. They cannot even begin to deal with the original problem (often a depression fully warranted by the circumstances in their lives) until they have dealt with this added, debilitating dependency on the drugs and the side-effects experienced as a result of those drugs.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“There may be one or two balancing factors. One is in understanding that our culture’s wholesale determination to eternally remain in, and only cohort with the light creates a build up where those of us who give any room, at all, to darkness may find ourselves swamped not just by a personal backlog (though there’s that, as well), but by a cultural and societal backlog.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“There is usually a huge relief that accompanies being in the Underworld, when we have done a thorough Descent. It is impossible to explain this properly before it happens. All that trauma, relinquishing everything at gate after gate and then – how can there be peace? How stillness? How serenity? Everything else has run out, been used up, paid as a price to enter this place and there is nothing left.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“But in the Underworld these things may be accepted only after great inner battle. Death, in fact. Death of your hopes for this relationship, of your understanding of your own motivations in relationship, of your ability in life – so far – to create or find what you want. This is because you are usually dealing with not just a single instance – whether it be a relationship, an illness, depression or other difficulty – but a pattern, and often a whole lifetime’s pattern. Sometimes it is even a generational pattern. In the Underworld you have to change not just on the surface level – this instance of the event – but all the way through, down to the core. In the Underworld you get to rewrite your own pattern. This can take a while. It can look messy. It is usually deeply distressing, revelatory and freeing.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“What did our mothers think and what do we, as mothers, think of our daughters?”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul

“It’s as if the very act of integration of our own Underworld experience tips, domino-like, against others we are close to, possibly requiring them to undertake their own journeys and integration.”
― Jane Meredith, Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul