I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

What matters is giving over to what you love.

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.