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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
— Unknown Author
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You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally…
— Kevin Powers
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Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life…
— Pope Francis
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When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It is the…
— Pope Francis
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She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten…
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If…
— Shakti Gawain
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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that…
— Al Gore
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He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling…
— Rick Riordan
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Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into…
— David Abram
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...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
— Leon Trotsky
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Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central…
— Eugenio Montale
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