We can connect with our own birthing and dying – not as two discrete happenings which will mark the beginning and ending of a linear experience called life, but rather as two ever present aspects of a continuous process whose revolutions stretch forth into infinity.  Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot:  An Archytipcal Journey

You take chances in life and you may lose.  But how else do you win? Sometimes you have to take a risk to break free of a closed belief system, or to experience a world bigger and more wonderous than the one you were taught.  Rachel Pollack, The Forest of Souls

To accept growth and change in oneself is also a kind of departure, a leaving behind of the safe and the known.  Sometimes we realize the poignancy of our loss only after the fact, but there is no returning home.  Margaret Guenther, Holy Listening