Soul Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

12 Soul quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams blends environmental awareness with personal insight. This modest collection of 12 thoughts reveals how the soul can be rooted in the natural world, offering a fresh lens on ecological spirituality.

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What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

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To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

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We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it…

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The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against…

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Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with…

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When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our…

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When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,…

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Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We…

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For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too…

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where…

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I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

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I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…

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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

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I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

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“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…

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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…

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