absolute, in forms such as Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Tripurasundari, Bhairavi, and local variations. According to one estimate, 51 Shakti Peeths are strewn across the geographical length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent. Mythology weaves together these sacred sites in the narrative of the grieving Shiva who flew through the skies in anguish at the death of his beloved Sati, dropping her body parts on to the earth.”
JANET HARRIS –“We were brought up with the value that as we sow, so shall we reap. We discarded the idea that anything we did was its own reward.”
JANIS JOPLIN –“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
JANNA LYNN –“And I bow to the deathless Lord whose form I see, motionless in the still, white glacier beyond the swift, foam-capped waters, moving surely, one day to merge in the Sea.”
JANNA LYNN –“In that stillness, as the spring snow drenched the Earth, I remembered offering myself at the temple ; as I lay under the pure Ganga stream, in the distance, Shivaling, where the yogi dreams above the shrill clamour of humanity in the valley below.”
JANNA LYNN –“On the dark Moon, I dream placing a pineapple on the altar of Shiva and lighting a candle to burn in the darkness of the Moon.”
JANNA LYNN –“So I may dwell with the Beloved and, one day, dance, foot lifted, pointed to the sky in the new cycle of becoming realising the dream into being.”
JANNA LYNN –“The cool crystal water washes the ash on my forehead, and the ashes of one dear arise in my mind’s eye, As I rise clear-eyed from
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