paraphrased quotes from Nelle Morton’s discussion of The Goddess As Metaphoric Image:

[Embodied spirituality] usher[s] in a reality that respects the sacredness of my existence, that gives me self-esteem so I can perceive the universe and its people through my [self] and not depend on the perception conditioned by patriarchal culture and patriarchal religion.

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Since the Goddess works herself out of the picture, we are better able to come into our full and whole inheritance that would make us one in our bodies, minds, and spirits. We can claim our sexuality as pervasive and as ourselves We can claim our bodies as ours and as ourselves and our minds as our own and ourselves. This sense of oneness within and with one another has brought us into more erotic relationship with one another . . . For once a [person] comes to see beauty in another [person's] mind and in [their] own mind and to love within the mind, [they] discover another dimension of power that is self-fulfilling.