It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.