Lillian Martinez’s Reviews > The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness > Status Update

Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private. We need to take it to the streets

This is how things get transformed. Our tenacity in tenderness, then, ripens us and propels us all to live in the luminous and infinite now. Only tenderness keeps us attentive to delight.

“everything that ends is the beginning of something else, so you can decide to celebrate our impermanence”

As we asses things, we tend to ask, “what would jesus do?” But it’s perhaps more clarifying to ask “Does god agree with us?”

We dont all arrive at the same understanding at the same moment… We get “to the world” and we tend to feel that waiting is passive. It isn’t, it’s holy…we see [truths] differently along the way. Things we already knew, but now see from a different angle. Our ears are different today than they were yesterday.”

breathing air of a richer kind is suchhhh a beautiful way to talk about an experience you gave that is so sacred to the heart you cant even understand it yourself 😭

To hold the tenderness long enough, so as to not spill it en root. We all taste eternity when person merges with person. We need to find ourselves poised to enter into a relationship with anyone anywhere.

my first ugly cry of the book 😭

Love makes fear illusory, and our outpouring is other-centered and rich in joy. Our decision is firm: to search for innocence in the other.

“Overthrow any government inside that makes you weep”