quotes that inspire my work in the world

“Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while desire is energized by it. If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is about having; desire is about wanting. An expression of longing, desire requires ongoing elusiveness. It is less concerned with where it has already been than passionate about where it can still go. But too often, as couples settle into the comforts of love, they cease to fan the flame of desire. They forget that fire needs air.” 
- Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
​- Tori Amos

​"Habitual Repression of the emotions is dangerous, it can even danger life"
​"The only way out is through"
- Carl Jung

"Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods."
​- Peter Levine

"Patience and timing... everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more."
- Dr. Brian Weiss

"Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift"
- Mary Oliver​

"One day you will wake up and there won't be anymore time, to do the things you've always wanted. DO IT NOW!"
- Paulo Coelho