My heart pounds as I prepare the script in my mind of how to respond. I've rehearsed this many times before, but even still - the question presents itself as a box, seeing whether I can be stuffed in or not.

"Don't worry. We've got you." -My Ancestors

"But all we have left of this today is the little tatter called a 'baby shower,' where all the birthing jokes, mother gifts, and genitalia stories are squeezed into a two hours' time, no longer available to the woman throughout her entire lifetime as their mother..."
-Women Who Run With Wolves

"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." – Adyashanti

 "The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now." - S. N. Goenka

$2.

 "We are not doctors with (cutting) tools. In the old days, the only tools we had to use were our hands and our hearts. Don't think too hard; just feel it."

In order to find something, you must first lose it. 

No matter where the seeds land...

Yoni = Sanskrit word for "sacred place", a flower to bloom, the beginning of consciousness, portal into the cosmos, or more commonly known to westerners as...

What will you do with the fire radiating from your core?

Freedom is not something we strive for as an aftermath of our struggles, but is something we can begin to embody today. 

Surviving my Saturn Return...

"Don't shoot for the stars, we already know what's there. Shoot for the space in between because that's where the real mystery lies." - Vera Rubin

Time for new rituals!

 "The most radical thing I ever did was stay put." - Grace Lee Boggs

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh