“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

C. Joybell C.

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”

C. Joybell C.

"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you."
-Eileen Caddy 

“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’”
 ~ The Talmud

"Even if you live to be 100, it's really a very short time.  So why not spend it undergoing this process of evolution, of opening your mind and heart, connecting with your true nature-rather that getting better and better at fixing, grasping, freezing, closing down." 
-Pema Chodron   

“The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming,
is where the dance of life really takes place.”
-Barbara De Angelis

"You can't always see growth, roots grow underground" -Terces Engelhart

"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." -Elizabeth Foley

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
-Anais Nin

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. " -Oprah

"There is something very human about acknowledging the messy parts of life, to feel that for awhile, in order to get to the other side, the lightness of life. " Kelly Rae Roberts

How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you...where you were received and affirmed? A place where others had been affirmed before you, each in her time, affirmed as she struggled to become more truly herself.

A place where, after the fires were lighted, and the drumming, and the silence, there would be a hush of expectancy...a knowing that each one there was leaving old conformity to find her self...a sense that all of womanhood stood on the threshold.

And if, during the hush, others had helped you to trust your own becoming...to trust it and quietly and prayerfully to nurture it...

How might your life be different? ~ Judith Duerk (Circle of Stones)

"Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What you pay
attention to thrives. What you do not pay attention to withers and dies.
What will you pay attention to today?" ~ Karen Maezen Miller