“Ordinary caution is likened to reasonable reservation, but caution that has undergone calcification aged by isolation is thick… stubborn, and shrouded with fear.”

“I am available to surrender to the active substance of life-giving power within me… to beautify the ashes of longstanding cyclical strongholds of despair.”

“To engage in such intimacy (on any level), I must always be present with myself. This is the gift that I am to give to myself; it becomes the perpetual present, this presence.”