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“Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.” quote by Susan Griffin — Download Open image

“Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.”

Susan Griffin

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Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life…

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Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

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“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other,…

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“[P]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and…

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“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.”

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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

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What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

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Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they…

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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

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The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of…

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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

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You can't go into games with any fear. You can acknowledge a good team but you can't go in worrying.

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Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

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We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

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When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of…

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Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen proprerly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are…

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Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are…

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I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as…

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No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not…

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