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Zoë Kennedy
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“Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.”
― The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
― The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
“Love is not a feeling, but the characteristic of a productive relationship. Failing to understand this is our great error in a time when all of us are chasing love as a goal, but finding only an extraordinary lack of love, for which we then blame ourselves. Our misunderstanding of love continues to make this situation worse. A world in which love exists in fantasies but has no actual potency loses the ability to facilitate fair negotiations, bestow meaning, or produce anything other than purely monetary wealth.”
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
“If you can manage to see yourself from the outside and accept yourself as a vulnerable organism within the biosphere, rather than focusing on the narrowness of your own needs and considering yourself the center of reality, you will be amazed at how the world positively overflows with suffering beings, each with needs and appetites of their own. Something odd occurs when one has that experience: Suddenly, the soul is filled with deep compasion for the world. This is the only attitude adequate to the task of scaling the dark mountain of the ecological catastrophe we face: without any illusion that it is possible to change human beings based on the strenght of better insights. But with full-fledged empathy for this creation, among which things are so hard precisely because it is creation. And with equally strong gratitude for this creation beneath a graciously warm sun and its affirmative light: where we have already been given everyhing we need to live, before we ever thought to desire it.”
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
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