Up: [[Hestia]] > [!Orbit] Jean Shinoda Bolen in *Goddesses in Older Women* > [[Hestia]] is the stillpoint at the centre of the soul. > [!Orbit] Gabrielle Roth in *Maps to Ecstasy* > We need to cultivate that stillpoint at the center of ourselves, the steady witness, the soul of attention and intention, as distinct from the ephemeral appearances and petty plots of the ego. Each one of us is the one who is watching and as the watcher we each ultimately have the power to choose how to be. (p.169) > [!Orbit] T.S. Eliot in *Burnt Norton* > At the stillpoint of the turning world there the dance is. And without the point that stillpoint there would be no dance and there is only the dance. > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in ‘Human Potential through Dance’ in *Conscious Femininity* > The still point between the two worlds is the hallmark of great art, as it is the hallmark of a life being truly lived. (p.151) > [!Orbit] [[Kris Kristofferson]] > Paddle with the current, not against it. And when you get really good, you can throw away the oars.