"Listen—sweetly and gently—to the deepest knowing in you. Listen to that which is deeper than fear, deeper than discomfort, deeper than shame or trauma or loss. Listen to the visitors who knock on your heart—knocking from the inside. Shame, pain, loneliness, grief, and more—all these are your allies not your foes. They yearn to come in, to be acknowledged, to be accepted, to be loved. For... what is broken is the doorway to gold, what is shattered is the entrance to inconceivable love, what brings you to your knees is not a punishment but [God’s] [the] invitation [of mystery] [of not-knowing] [of that which is larger] [of whose shadow it is]" ~ Amoda Maa
