Quotes from Jean Shinoda Bolen

A younger you might have responded impulsively by letting your emotions carry you away without much thought or consideration. Those same emotions may arise, but a maturity (often having to do with being responsible for others) stops you from acting on them. You know that whatever you decide to do here matters. It is time to call on Hecate to help you see the larger picture, to stay at the crossroad until it is clear to you which path to take.

The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

el verdadero coste de cualquier cosa es aquello a lo que renunciamos para obtenerla. Es el camino no tomado.

When we have rigid theories about what makes people the way they are and we project our theories onto patients and clients, insisting that our reality is their reality, we do the same thing their parents did. This is the wounding shadow of authority that says, 'I know what your story is and I know its meaning,' and it robs the person of the opportunity to discover this. This is a risk for anyone in a leadership role.

I have always thought of a myth as something that never was, but is always happening

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.

Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history. What can and will we do?

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.

Nada es tan poderoso como una idea cuyo momento ha llegado. VÍCTOR HUGO

Para las mujeres Atenea (como señalaba el exsecretario de estado Henry Kisinger) "el poder es el mejor afrodisíaco".

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.

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

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

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.

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.