Amanda Alwine

Letting go is not the end, it is the doorway to your greatest transformation.

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The idea that stay at home mothers 'don't work' is so self evidently absurd that only our modern society could believe it. Only the type of society that spends a whole decade debating what a woman is.

"You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Many people will reject a person with wisdom. They will prefer to get wisdom from a book. This is because books won't hold them accountable in any way. Books can easily be refunded. Or not read at all.

The ability to hold nuance is so rare because it takes psychological maturity that not many have. To grasp nuance takes the ability to tolerate ambivalence; it takes the capacity to see things from several different angles simultaneously. On a deeper level, it is a byproduct of sincere shadow work that seeks wholeness. It’s much “easier” to split and divide people into all good and all bad, which is what most people are doing these days. This splitting is most commonly seen in the disorder we call “borderline personality,” where they’ll love you if you play out their ideal image, but they hate you if you shatter that ideal image. In these times of intense polarization, the world has all become a little bit borderline. If some influencer, celebrity, or politician says something they like, they’ll love them; if they say one thing they disagree with, they suddenly hate them. Those who can hold this nuance and tolerate the idea of “both/and” and are not constantly dividing the world into all evil and all good (no absolutes of either exist) seem to be quietly holding together the world right now. Furthermore, those who can use their triggers and projections towards others to inquire about what their perceptions about others say about their inner state can make these shadows conscious and will turn the light on in these dark times.

In a single day, we are exposed to the thoughts of thousands of people who themselves don't meditate. So the craziness amplifies. Noise and distraction. Shut everything down. Meditate. Allow time for your mind time to heal from the constant attacks on your psyche.

The first time I did ayahuasca, it showed me all of my trauma. I spent the whole ceremony grieving. I spent the next 6 years learning how to heal the trauma I was shown with psycho-spiritual inner work and trauma therapy. Psychedelics can show you what you need to heal, yet the journey to actually heal is done in what you do after that in your sober, conscious, every day life.

The counter to anxiety is not calmness, it’s trust.

Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.

Do a random act of kindness then dip, expecting nothing in return.

To recognize Divinity in another, one has to Know it within themselves.

Let your response to disrespect and foolishness be to withdraw your energy and walk away. Without apology.

It’s the things you do in silence that nobody knows about that gains you the most growth and momentum. What is sacred, keep sacred.

Head knowledge does not translate into change. Integrating your body and healing your nervous system does.

Money is not enough to keep a woman interested in you. It may keep her around but that does nothing for you emotionally.

Sometimes when people say: "I don't now what to do..." What they really mean is: "I'm not ready to accept the potential consequences of what my inner knowingness is inviting me to do"

You will find the creator when nothing makes sense to you, when you admit nothing makes sense to you. When you recognize asking 'why' itself is a prayer. When you stop trying to make sense of things, things will become clear.

I’ve noticed that there seems to be some link between trauma and spirituality and this book has helped me understand why

Motherhood has taught me, above all, that to truly, madly, deeply love someone means you have to let them go.