"Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over."

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Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

Jalaja Bonheim

#Journey Quotes #Giving Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.”
“I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think Iâ€™m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally Iâ€™m talking really slowly or thereâ€™s a lot of silence because thereâ€™s just nothing going on. Iâ€™m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like Iâ€™m in control.”
“The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also all talk is quickly swallowed up by it. People are trying to keep their heads down because they are being bombarded all the time.”
“If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.”
“The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.”

Source : D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.251, Souvenir Press
“The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.”
“I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.”
“The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.”

Source : Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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