
“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”
“She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.”
Source: When She Hollers
“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)
Context: Much of our magic and our community work is about creating spaces of refuge from a harsh and often hostile world, safe places where people can heal and regenerate, renew our energies and learn new skills. In that work, we try to release guilt, rage, and frustration, and generally turn them into positive emotions.
Safety and refuge and healing are important aspects of spiritual community. But they are not the whole of spirituality. Feeling good is not the measure by which we should judge our spiritual work. Ritual is more than self-soothing activity.
Spirituality is also about challenge and disturbance, about pushing our edges and giving us the support we need to take great risks. The Goddess is not just a light, happy maiden or a nurturing mother. She is death as well as birth, dark as well as light, rage as well as compassion — and if we shy away from her fiercer embrace we undercut both her own power and our own growth.
All About Soul.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)