Everyone finds a unique way to express their feelings.
Even if a phrase combines different words, they all come from the same space.
In honour of Mother Ayahuasca and our brave souls, we’ve gathered fragments that feel just like the morning after our Ayahuasca ceremonies, so you can feel inspired by your new findings.
Let them remind you of love and life and ignite your heart in all the right places.
Quotes that rekindle the memory of how the morning after Ayahuasca feels like
“A dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word. He felt only that he was welcomed and that this was home. It had been a long day for him, a day whose sunrise he no longer remembered.”
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a story by Richard Bach.
“If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?
Do I know? (…) The silence, it might be … or the stillness. To have no more running to do … to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.”
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Elis Peters, A Rare Benedictine.
“As her aunt stroked her forehead, she thought that, yes, finally, she understood what a homecoming was supposed to be. It was to be comfortable in a way you couldn’t be elsewhere; it was to be mothered into an oblivious ooze.”
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Ling Ma, Bliss Montage.
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore.”
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Viktor E Frankl
“Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. Is a joyful homecoming to our natural home.”
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Betty Eadie
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
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Aberjhani, Journet through the power of the Rainbow.
“Unwinged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
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Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams.
“If you live in the dark for a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There’s an initial upbrush of relief at first, then – for me anyway – a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren’t yet operational. There’s been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.”
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Mary Karr, Lit.
“Following dark’s winter strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.”
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Phar West Nagle
“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.”
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Frederik Lent
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a feeling time it was.”
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Aberjhani
“Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise.”
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Maya Angelou
“A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it’s my rebirth in darkness.”
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Munia Khan
“Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this … truly, mine is what may be called a perfect existence!”
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SZA
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
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Bernard Williams
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Owning our own story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy- the experiences that make us most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
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Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfections.
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
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Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.
“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.”
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Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream.
“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”
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Oscar Wilde, De Profundis.
“Travel does not exist without home… If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
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Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter.
“What is belonging?” We ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
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Rivers Solomon, The Deep.
“Omigosh – I’m a squash!”
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Dave Horowitz, The Ugly Pumpkin.
Were you able to feel beyond these words?
Whether you have already met Ayahuasca or are considering doing so, Avalon’s retreats in Barcelona hold an invitation for each one of you. An invitation to remember, feel, let go, let in, breathe easily, and open up to the world ahead of you.
Homecoming is a must. No one should pass through life without having experienced this ultimate feeling because once experienced firsthand, you can learn to recognise it in people, places, and moments, and it can instantly bring you peace or lead you to it. Now that you have gained some insight into the best quotes for the morning after Ayahuasca.
