The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
In my dreams, I never have an age.
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
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