- Joseph Campbell
Those who love us actually want us to be deeply in tune with who we are, and capable of bringing ourselves fully to meet them. Frictions arise when we fall into habitual patterns, defer to our partners, or otherwise lose touch with our centers.
When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver
Resolution comes naturally with truth telling, risk taking, and a genuine attempt to rediscover connection.
Psychotherapy is often thought of as a feminine discipline. Perhaps you think it’s all about being listened to. Perhaps you wonder what difference it would really make?
The Inner King is the one in us who knows what we want to do for the rest of our lives, or the rest of the month, or the rest of the day… The Inner King is connected with our fire of purpose and passion.
Robert Bly
The recent upsurge of powerful depictions of women in the media speaks to a hunger just as strong in women as it is in men; a hunger to reconnect with a sense of meaningfulness and a life lived from passion. And yet for women it is also different.
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Each one of us is home to an inner monarch, and we betray that deep guidance at our peril…