This is what is meant when climate change is called an “existential crisis”—a drama we are now haphazardly improvising between two hellish poles, in which our best-case outcome is death and suffering at the scale of twenty-five Holocausts,
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“I, or rather, we are being asked to cultivate outrageous courage in the face of outrageous loss.”
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“GO WITH MUDDY FEET”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
“Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to… Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
“thinkers were hylozoists. A “hylozoist” believes that the universe is alive; it’s about the same idea as pan-psychism, that everything is animated. Pan-psychism or hylozoism falls into two belief-classes:”
― The Valis Trilogy: The Complete Collection of Philip K. Dick's Award-Winning VALIS Series
― The Valis Trilogy: The Complete Collection of Philip K. Dick's Award-Winning VALIS Series
“And your breath is the thinking. We think each other back and forth, your mind and me. We write one another.”
― Wrong Norma
― Wrong Norma
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