Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. - Jalaja Bonheim

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It's good to visit Hawaii if you're seeking power. You don't really need to live here. Just to come over for a week is enough. Switzerland is another spot like this. It's very similar. These are the two clearest spots, Switzerland and Hawaii.

Jalaja Bonheim

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

Brokenness, Embracing, Fragility, Mindfulness, Sometimes

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Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

Cells, Fact, Goddess, Powerful, Sacred Feminine, Woman

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

Life, Reality, Two, Woman, World

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

Headed, Know, Life, Telling, Together, Women

To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

Clear, Dark, Knowing, Outcome, Protect, Waiting

We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

And Love, Destruction, Fragility, Radiance, Self

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