Lucy

“إحدى العلامات البارزة في استخدام الحدس والطبيعة الغريزية أنها تتسبب في تفجر العفوية والتلقائية من قلب الأعماق. ولا تعني العفوية أن تكوني طائشة. إنها ليست خاصية "الانطلاق دون تدبر". فمازالت الحدود الواضحة شيئاً مهماً.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a human possession than it is a property of the animate earth itself, an expressive, telluric power in which we, along with the coyotes and the crickets, all participate. Each creature enacts this expressive magic in its own manner, the honeybee with its waggle dance no less than a bellicose, harrumphing sea lion.

Nor is this power restricted solely to animals. The whispered hush of the uncut grasses at dawn, the plaintive moan of trunks rubbing against one another in the deep woods, or the laughter of birch leaves as the wind gusts through their branches all bear a thicket of many-layered meanings for those who listen carefully. In the Pacific Northwest I met a man who had schooled himself in the speech of needled evergreens; on a breezy day you could drive him, blindfolded, to any patch of coastal forest and place him, still blind, beneath a particular tree -- after a few moments he would tell you, by listening, just what species of pine or spruce or fir stood above him (whether he stood beneath a Douglas fir or a grand fir, a Sitka spruce or a western red cedar). His ears were attuned, he said, to the different dialects of the trees.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

“Life is real only then, when "I am".”
― G.I. Gurdjieff