“We often think of the end, the happily ever after, as the external union or outward marriage. To be held in love by another is just the start.

It’s not the end. The culmination is when that trauma or wound has left the body altogether, so we no longer have to.

This was the ending I wanted. The end when I have found the cabin deep inside my body with a sign on its door that reads, ‘Here anyone can live free.’” (Mary Magdalene Revealed, p.72)

—THE HANDLESS MAIDEN