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Who Cares?
It is incredible how deaf, dumb, and blind we are to nonphysical pain. If you break a leg, have cancer, the flu, or some other disease, people sympathize and want to help you….But if you are paralyzed with despair, scared to get out of bed, can’t see a reason for living, have lost hope, or are just sinking into a swamp of bitterness and misery, it almost seems like no one can help you — or in fact really wants to try to help you.
— from Students Under Siege by Bud Harris, PhD
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Yet Goddess is a name that must be spoken if female power is to be acknowledged as legitimate. Goddesses also celebrate the female body, remind of us our connection to nature, and encourage us to celebrate the bonds we share as women.”
~ Carol P. Christ, “Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess”
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The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death, the death of self, the death of me and mine, the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment. Treading the spiritual path is painful. It is a constant unmasking, peeling off of layer after layer of masks. It involves insult after insult.”
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Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
