"The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams."

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Source : Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.6, Island Press

Paul Shepard

#Dream Quotes #World Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.”
“It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?”
“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin
“When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.”
“Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.”

Source : Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”
“We will able to overcome all that because five of us were together and not alone.”
“Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.”
“People don't want information; they want epiphanies.”

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