Imagine a woman

Imagine a woman in love with herself,
who believes it is right and good she is a woman,
who has walked through her past and who has healed into the present moment,
who celebrates her body’s rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource,
who allows the feelings to pass through her as gracefully as a breath,
who trusts her experience of the world and expresses it,
who follows her creative impulses,
who designs a personal spirituality to inform her daily life,
a woman who has descended into her own inner life;
who is grateful for the ordinary moments of beauty and grace,
who authors her own life,
who chooses friends and lovers with the capacity to respect her solitude,
who sits in circles of women;
who makes a powerful statement with every word she speaks, every action she takes;
who asserts to herself the right to reorder the world.
Imagine a woman who has vowed faithfulness to her own life and capacities;
who remains loyal to herself; regardless.

Now imagine yourself as this woman.”

~Patricia Lynn Reilly