Sometimes

“Sometimes the one who is running 

from the Life/Death/Life nature 

insists on thinking of love as a boon only. 

Yet love in its fullest form 

is a series of deaths and rebirths. 

We let go of one phase, 

one aspect of love, 

and enter another. 

Passion dies and is brought back. 

Pain is chased away 

and surfaces another time. 

To love means to embrace 

and at the same time to withstand many endings, 

and many many beginnings - 

all in the same relationship.”

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: 

Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype