QUOTES
"I
believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging
into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and
planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center."
When
you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care
enough about yourself to make room for it in your life
To
be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values
of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in
yourself and your own personal evolution.
We
need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we
once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world.
Before
you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it
is possible.
"I
think of affirmations and visualizations as tapping into the power of the imagination,
which is a generator and transformer, a force that precedes and shapes who we
become, and what we create and achieve. Whenever we attempt something new or difficult,
we have to be able to imagine it before it becomes possible. It's the combination
of inspiration and perspiration that brings about tangible results."
Listening,
witnessing, role modeling, reacting, deepening, mirroring, laughing, crying, grieving,
drawing upon experience, and sharing the wisdom of experience, women in circles
support each other and discover themselves, through talk. Circles of women supporting
each other, healing circles, wisdom circles, soul sister circles, circles of wisewomen,
of clan mothers, of grandmothers. Circles of crones, circles of pre-crones, lifetime
circles and ad hoc circles, even circles of women in cyberspace and the business
place, circles are forming everywhere.
Gloria
Steinem has often noted that women tend to be more conservative when young, and
become rebellious and radical as they grow older, while it's the opposite for
men. Women become fiercely compassionate crones when they are outraged at the
suffering caused as much by indifference by those in authority as by the perpetrators.
Compassion and anger come together for terrorized, abused, helpless, and neglected
people, whose plight is considered of little importance because they have no power
or value in a world where greed and power over others rather than concern for
others is the ruling principle. Crones are not naïve or in denial about reality.
When something in particular is an outrage, and doing something about it is a
choice, a moment of truth occurs in which activists are born. The suffering of
others or the feeling of Enough is enough! radicalizes older women.
