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Lukewarm, like slightly cooled blood. Everything starts to feel unfamiliar. As if I’ve come up to the back of something. Shut up behind a door without a handle. Perhaps I’m only now coming face-to-face with the thing that has always been ...more
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“So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.”
Jane Hirschfield

David Abram
“We may acknowledge, intellectually, our body’s reliance upon those plants and animals that we consume as nourishment, yet the civilized mind still feels itself somehow separate, autonomous, independent of the body and of bodily nature in general. Only as we begin to notice and to experience, once again, our immersion in the invisible air do we start to recall what it is to be fully a part of this world… This breathing landscape is no longer just a passive backdrop against which human history unfolds, but a potentized field of intelligence in which our actions participate.”
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Anne Carson
“As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.”
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“How much longer will man continue to pimp for the gluttony of death, his most insidious, implacable, and eternal foe?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Adam's final act of naming is to name his wife, Eve, inaugurating the religious basis for the masculine's ownership over the feminine. What we name, we often feel we own. What we name, we feel we understand well enough to name. And when we believe we have arrived at understanding, we stop asking questions. We close ourselves off from surprise.”
Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

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