By Danya Ruttenberg — 2016
What if our own crucible of self-sacrifice can teach us more about enlightenment than male mystics ever could?
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CLEAR ALL
I’m afraid to need friendship, but it doesn’t change the fact that I do.
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I have three children, some really good girlfriends, and family who lives close by that I can count on. Yet I am still taken aback by the lonely feelings that live inside me since I became a mother.
As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.