We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.

Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.