Jalaja Bonheim quotes
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“When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
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“Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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“Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.”
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“To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
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“We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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“Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone
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“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
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“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”
Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
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Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
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Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial
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“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”
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Source : "A fractal life". Interview with Valerie Jamieson, www.newscientist.com. November 10, 2004.