Jean Shinoda Bolen Quotes

• 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.

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  Mean, Caring, Unique

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• 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.

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  God, Spiritual, Believe

  Jean Shinoda Bolen (2008). “Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World”, p.145, Conari Press

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Cutting, Confusion

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

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  Opportunity, Needs, Faces

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• 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.

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  God, Mean, Unique

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• 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.

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  Women, Heart, Judging

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

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  Vision, Done, Able

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Enough

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

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  Heart, Feelings, Intuition

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Moving

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• 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.

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  Love, Marriage, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Change, Spiritual, Mirrors

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• 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.

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  Voice, Creative, Soul

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• At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

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  Believe, Soul, Praying

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• Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.

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  Dream, Prayer, Mean

  Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press

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• The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It's the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.

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  Time, Moving, Eye

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

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  Promise, Patterns, Synchronicity

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• 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.

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  Pain, Believe, Responsibility

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• 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.

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  Abundance Of Love, Filled Up, Meditation

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• There is a potential heroine in every woman.

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  Heroines

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• The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.

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  Brother, Inspiration, Animal

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• 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.

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  Nature, Opposites, Soul

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• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, Choices

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