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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we…

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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind…
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life…
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the…
A language Older Than Words
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,…
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to…
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from…
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not…
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come…
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting…
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the… — Walter de La Mare
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. — George Eliot
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other… — John Donne
By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but… — Marc Ian Barasch
People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong… — Tim Wise
New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power… — John Keble
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or… — Laurie Lee
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not… — Derrick Jensen
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention… — Annie Dillard
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy

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