Gift

“Many of us in this time have lost the inner substance of our lives and have forgotten to give praise and remember the sacredness of all life. But in spite of the forgetting, there is still a part of us that is deep and intimate with the world. We remember it by feel. We experience it as a murmur in the night, a longing and restlessness we can’t name, a yearning that tugs at us. For it is only recently, in earth time, that the severing of the connections between people and land has taken place. Something in our human blood is still searching for it, still listening, still remembering. —Linda Hogan”
― Glenn Aparicio Parry, Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature

“the devil is not so black as he is painted.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire