Jalaja Bonheim quotes

“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 Bonheim

Source : 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 Bonheim

Source : 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.”
-- Jalaja Bonheim

#Reality Quotes #Two Quotes #World Quotes

“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 Bonheim

Source : 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 Bonheim

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

#Self Quotes #And Love Quotes #Fragility Quotes

“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 Bonheim

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

#Journey Quotes #Giving Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”
-- Jalaja Bonheim

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

#Mindfulness Quotes #Fragility Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

“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

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”

“From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.”

Source : "A fractal life". Interview with Valerie Jamieson, www.newscientist.com. November 10, 2004.