"Within nearly all expressions of contemporary women's spirituality is the idea of the Goddess, not as a woman sitting on a throne above the clouds, i.e., transcendent, apart from us, but as immanent, within ourselves. Many would carry this even further and speak of the Goddess as being within all manifestations of life. And more and more women are relating to the idea of divinity . . . as the flowing energy in the very processes of life and living. This Goddess would not be in a person, or tree, or river, so much as she would be the actual organic process, the flow, the changes, transitions, and transformations that the person, tree or river go through. This idea . . . is perhaps more closely related to Taoism than any other body of spiritual thought."
Merlin Stone, "When God Was a Woman"
Photo: Woman at the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, CA, July 26, 2011
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