No one can heal by maintaining or fostering illusion.
— Alice Miller
It’s in the darkness, it’s in the moment of crisis, when you have fallen through all of your own expectations that there is the opportunity for rebirthing.
— Barbara Holmes
I profess the uncertain
with gratitude.
… the almost untenable premise
that between counting one and two
nothing is lost.
— Jane Hirschfeld
For one reason or the other, you’ve read Yielding to Yes – and you’ve now reached its end. The question is: What now? Where to go from here? I'd like to offer a brief closing word to a few specific readers: the Christian, the Queer person (and/
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T.S. Elliot According to Master Linji the miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.
It’s so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. — Anne Lemott Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. — Charles Péguy The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. — Carl Jung I laugh when I hear
I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for awhile, and stumbled back out. I made this place