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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist (Jungian archetypes) and author. Bolen has written several books on the archetypal psychology of women and men in the development of spirituality, and is one of the women featured in the 1986 film Women – for America, for the World (Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)) and 1989 National Film Board of Canada documentary Goddess Remembered. Bolen also co-founded (with former husband James Bolen) Psychic magazine in 1969 (renamed New Realities in 1977) covering parapsychology and mind-body-spiritual subjects.

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To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.

Feelings, Heart, Intuition, Intuitive, Know, Learn

Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.

Change, Life, Patterns, Promise, Synchronicity

As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present.

Appreciation, Beautiful, Beauty, Catch, Experience, Present

Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with it, responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy both come with life. I believe that how we respond to what happens to us and around us shapes who we become and has to do with the psyche or the soul's growth.

Believe, Come, Evolution, Life, Pain, Responsibility

I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.

Absorbs, Enough, Nurtured, People, Thinking

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.

Abundance Of Love, Filled, Filled Up, Meditate, Meditation, Send

Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

Able, Done, Imagine, Possible, Vision

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.

God, Internal, Mean, Personal, Treasure, Unique

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. 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.

Against, Caring, Mean, Soulful, Unique, Valuable

What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.

Mountaintop, Nature, Nourish, Opposites, Soul

I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

Ego, Evokes, Love, Marriage, Think, Thinking

Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

Faces, Life, Master, Needs, Opportunity, Presents

Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.

Appreciation, Beautiful, Beauty, Behold, Gratitude, Whenever

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

Choices, Heart, Life, Scan, Thinking

When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is possible to find what we have cut off from, to "remember" a once vital aspect of ourselves. We may uncover a wellspring of creativity that has been hidden for decades.

Confusion, Creativity, Cutting, Period, Time

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.

Attitude, Brings, Enough, Inspirational, Life, Soul

We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

Comfortable, Long, Needs, Older, Running, Unhappy

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.

Believe, God, Planetary, Spiritual, Vessel, World

Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look. Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well.

Change, Good, Meetings, Mirrors, Spiritual, Synchronicity

I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment.

Appreciation, Consciousness, Gratitude, Moving, Simultaneously

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