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“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”

Should Mother Courses Grief Darkness Impossible Possibility Deny Grieving Rebirth Transforming Radiant Old Life

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.”

Ifs Children Real Play Mother Imagination Possibility Limits Real You

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.”

Ifs Humans Children Stills Would Be Mother Perfect Possibility Baby Adults Helpless Still Life

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual