"It
helps to think of our swamps of despair as the necessary muddle before
clarity. Actually, swamps are incredibly fertile places full of life. In
mythology the heroine must cross such a place in her darkest hour,
where she comes to face her unlived life - meeting each of the divine
allies disguised as regret, doubt, and insufficiency which swell up from
the mud of her despondency. If she is willing to consummate the full
encounter, they will reveal themselves in service to the vitality of her
true being." Toko-pa