#goddess

... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. ↗

— Cynthia Eller

#goddess #soul #spirituality #age

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#domestic #everybody #goddesses #high #lives

Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater. ↗

— Amy Alkon

#amy-alkon #rude-people #life

Let us gain WillPower from Hanuman,Viveka discrimination from Gan-patee the leader of men,Karuma Empathy from Shiva who is all jeevas beings.Faith from Mother Goddess all,Ability to increase the radius of self centerd ness from Vishnu and ability to unlearn the obsolete and learn new thoughts as New Sun rises each Morning ,so that we all Evolve,rise. ↗

— Upanishads Ancient Indian texts

#ganesha #goddess #hanuman #shiva #sun

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#goddess #love #poetry #seduction #the-seducer-s-diary

(...) ClanFintan's gaze captured mine once more. "I said nothing because I hoped that you would trust me enough to confide in me." His voice had finally regained its emotion, and I was upset to hear the sadness that filled his words. "I do trust you! It's just that there didn't seem to be a right time. And then, well, I didn't tell you because I didn't want to chance loosing your love." My voice had become a whisper. (...) So, I stood there trying to blink away the tears that were threatening to spill from my eyes. ClanFintan sighed heavily and closed the space between us before I could start bawling. He touched my face and cupped my chin in the warmth of his hand. "My love is something you will never lose." He bent and kissed me softly, then smiled at my undoubtedly goofy expression. "My patience, perhaps, but never my love. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#centaur #goddess #partholon #love

Her feet were large, and she had a habit of whistling badly, but these things made her worthy of being loved. A goddess might be adored for a moment, but only a real person can speak forever to the rest of us. ↗

— Katherine Vaz

#love #worthy #love

She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#goddess #heart #love #starcrossed #love

Diana? Isn't she the goddess who hated men?' He considered. 'I think of her as the goddess who tempted men by bathing outdoors, and turned them into animal life if they succumbed to the lure of bare flesh. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head