"As long as we define ourselves by who we should be,
how powerful as women we can be,
what we should look like,
through the definitions of others,
we can never know our true power and what effect we can have on our world.
To do this, we need to have the inner strength necessary to break our conditioning,
and the work with the dakini mandala can give us this.
Through transforming the emotions into wisdom and our own body into the luminous presence of the dakini,
stabilizing that through meditative concentration, we change inside, and then this creates an outer transformation.”
~ Lama Tsultrim Allione, from her book Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.
