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Aspen Matis

"The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it."

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Donna Grant

"Find your path in life and travel on it."

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Donna Grant

"To begin a new journey is never easy, but we have to start somewhere to reach a new destination."

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Donna Grant

"Your real journey starts when you stop running away."

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Donna Grant

"Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal."

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Donna Grant

"The journey is greater than the destination."

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Donna Grant

"Life is an individual race of endurance."

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Donna Grant

"Every challenge you encounter is part of the life's journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled."

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Donna Grant

"Path of life, path of light!"

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Donna Grant

"There is no destination except the one inside of you."

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Donna Grant

"Travel on your define path."

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Aspen Matis
"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."

Healing

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Aspen Matis
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."

Courage

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Aspen Matis
"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."

Nature

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Aspen Matis
"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."

Responsibility

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Aspen Matis
"He hadn't treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn't found it yet, but I would find it soon."

Love

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Aspen Matis
"The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer. The way I felt about being sexually shamed had changed. Now I was angry that others were trying to shame my sexuality in the first place. I flushed-this time not in shame-but in rage."

Empowerment

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Aspen Matis
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."

Death

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Aspen Matis
"I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself."

Empowerment

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Aspen Matis
"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."

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Aspen Matis
"Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other."

Loneliness

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