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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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It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each…
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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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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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It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for…
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
— Walter Russell
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or…
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A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing…
— Maureen O'Hara
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches,…
— Kathleen Raine
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Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is,…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in…
— David O. McKay
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When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of…
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