Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
