“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”
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“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
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“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers”
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