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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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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
— Quintus Ennius
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Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The way to God is ever within the heart, within the loving heart.
— Harold Klemp
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There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to…
— David Abram
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Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd…
— Robert Montgomery
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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by…
— Eudora Welty
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Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,…
— Alexander Pope
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found…
— Cormac McCarthy
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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
— Quintus Ennius
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