The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

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.