The Flesh and the Fruit Quotes

“If everything is known and we have no questions, only answers, there is little opportunity for new life to push through the walls of our certainty—it can, but usually does so less frequently and in much more destructive ways.”
― Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

“Home is an elusive and numinous word. What does it mean to find home? There are many ways to describe or circle around this state, but most of all we have to feel into this mysterious internal place we call home. To be home is to feel safe and of one piece. It is to be in the grace of your elemental waters where your being is marked by presencing rather than efforting.80 It is to fall into the rightness and rhythm of being who you are without shame. When we are home, we find our way through deep wild response rather than through unremitting willful effort. To be too far from home for too long is to be constantly exhausted.”
― Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

“For many of us, we have been indoctrinated to take on the shadows around us, telling stories like: We can do this. We are strong. Everyone else is fine now, so it’s okay. I will take this rather that confront it. I will live in this story because if I don’t all hell will break loose. In my experience, sometimes stories that serve as protective vessels for containing some kind of hell have been forged and are sustained in some kind of hell.”
― Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression