Quotes About Discovery

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

The night seemed like an inkblot I had to figure out.

As I walked, I began to hear the sound of running water. It's impossible to hear that sound and not go searching for the source.

Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of it. Rather the opposite, she was like someone who'd risen to her full measure.

He said she left me, that she left both of us and ran away." A wall of glass broke in my chest, a wall I didn't even know was there.

What else do you love, Lily?" No one had ever asked me this before. What did I love?

I recall a story I love about Jung. One of his students came to him and asked: Professor, could you please tell me the shortest distance to my life goal? Without hesitation Jung replied, The detour.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

As I painted, deeply buried emotions boiled to the surface.

realize with horrifying certainty that Ann has fallen into the hole. I drop onto my knees and call into the blackness. I scream her name until the sound clots in my throat. I don't know what to do. Finally I search for a flashlight so I can see down into the opening.

There was a feeling in me like rising water. It broke over me, finally, leaving behind the thing I knew, but didn't know. Nazareth had never been my home. Jesus had been my home.

didn't know Amen from what when

There's a place inside you that's inviolate- it's the surest part of you, a piece of Sophia herself. You'll find your way there, when you need to.

Bury your writings, so one day they can be found again.

I walked back past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it.

I didn't know to call it religion back then, didn't know Amen from what-when

Uncovering this need has been like finding an empty room in the center of my house, one I didn't know was there, one I couldn't pass without feeling its vacuity and wondering how it should be filled. I know I came to Greece in part to try and fill this vacancy in myself. I just didn't think it would have anything to do with Mary.

Knock upon yourself as on a door, and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on that road, you cannot get lost, and what you open for yourself will open. GOSPEL OF THOMAS

I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

I wondered how it was possible I had found words out there in the world but could lose them in the house where I was born--Sarah Grimke

Mothergod, I have nothing to hold me. No place to be, inside or out. I need to find a container of support, a space where my journey can unfold.

As I form the words, it seems entirely possible that what I wanted all along was to answer the question myself.