RESILIENCE

July 2021. 35mm © Clara Badulescu

“No sentient being in this world is allowed to remain innocent forever. In order for us to thrive, our own instinctive nature drives us to face the fact that things are not as they first seem. The wild creative function pushes us to learn about the many states of being, perception, and knowing.

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Loss and betrayal are the first slippery steps of a long initiatory process that pitches us into la selva subterránea, the underground forest. There, sometimes for the first time in our lives, we have a chance to cease walking into walls of our own making and learn to pass through hem instead.”

Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés. 1992