I wanted to share this post from earlier:
Knowing some of you on this thread will appreciate it. 
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wow, Sassy! I love how our two posts there aligned
Learning this more and more.
Wow…This needs to happen 
I read this today and wanted to share …I have long bowed to the force that is Alice Walker and her writings.
@Its_me_Stella … for you.
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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.
We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical,
or we may feel depressed.
It would never occur to us,
unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us,
that we were in fact in the process of change,
of actually becoming larger,
spiritually,
than we were before.
Whenever we grow,
we tend to feel it,
as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant.
Often the feeling is anything but pleasant.
But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening.
Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath,
unsure about what the next step should be,
eventually become the periods we wait for,
for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that,
in all probability,
a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
~ Alice Walker