Cyclical Living & The Cycles of Self

September 25, 2025

“Conspire Breath-Work isn’t conscious breathing. It’s not about controlling the breath. It’s about allowing the breath to reveal where you’re bracing — and integrating what’s been held.”

— Ella.O

“The trees do not act as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of the unity. What happens to one, happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“You’ve got to use it or you’ll lose it!”

— Everyone Who Experienced Loss

“One of the biggest lessons in life is that we heal at the speed of our forgiveness”

— Romany Malco

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

“It only takes one voice at the right pitch to start an avalanche.”

— Dianna Hardy

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

— Socrates

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

— Chinese Proverb

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Reiki can never and will never belong to just one person or one organization. Reiki is the spiritual heritage of all humanity.”

— Dr. Mikao Usui

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“No matter what the situation, remind yourself, “I Have A Choice.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

— Amy Poehler

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

— Booker T. Washington

“Your inner thoughts aren’t truly hidden. Their essence reflects in your energy. Energy speaks what you don’t.”

— Drishti Bablani

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”

— Nikola Tesla

“Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.”

— Ava DuVernay

“In the moment you can truly embrace uniqueness you are divine.”

— Ra Uru Hu

““Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.””

— Kahlil Gibran

“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”

— Toni Morrison

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self awareness, if you are not able to handle your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

— Daniel Goleman

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother has to always think twice - once for herself and once for her child”

— Sophia Loren

“Every positive change, every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves and rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”

— Dan Millman

“Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected. Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power.”

— Tony Campolo

“Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren’t willing to be changed by the ritual, don’t do it.
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— Starhawk

“It is in part the denial of death that causes people to live empty meaningless lives.”

— Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Ella, Jaclyn and Kate - we did it girls!

“Making a retreat so as to advance better”

— Li Peng

“Maybe it’s not about the length of time you have known someone; maybe it’s about the instant recognition on an unconscious level. Our souls know each other. ”

— S.E. Hall

“Fear is the brain’s way of telling you there is something important for you to overcome.”

— Rachel Huber

“If you want to soar in life you must first learn how to F.L.Y. (First Love Yourself)”

— Mark Sterling

“The strongest position you can be in is complete surrender.”

— Anon

“The miracle is this, the more we share, the more we have”

— Leonard Nimoy

“Do not speak badly about your self. For the Warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them.”

— David Gemmell

“Change is the essence of life; be willing to give up what you are for what you could become.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“The magic in the practice comes from the practice”

— Ella O

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow”

— Maya Angelou

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”

— Amy Collette