Maata lynn barron biography

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door.

Maata lynn barron biography

If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

For years there was this deep sense of insecurity inside…or rather a wrongness about my existence that I did not know how to describe.

I tried to live the values of the culture, follow the roadmap to success imparted to me through community, family and school. I was determined to be an “acceptable” kind of woman, even though I was obviously not. So I got educated, went into business, wore suits, thought rationally, competed against others and was successful for a time, but then my life fell apart.

I had been looking outside— in what I did, what I had, who I knew—for who I was, but it didn’t work.

The best way to say it was the outside was no