Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.