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7271e2d	This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.	faith inspiration	Terry Tempest Williams
147d9c1	For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.	self-betrayal intuition	Terry Tempest Williams
43ed832	Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.	women sing celebrate	Terry Tempest Williams
4e40620	Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.	meaning inspiration	Terry Tempest Williams
b83f615	Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.	suffering	Terry Tempest Williams
15150ef	I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change. I write to honor beauty. I write to correspond with my friends. I write as a daily act of improvisation. I write beca..		Terry Tempest Williams
bdbb4da	Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.	silence women writing-whisper	Terry Tempest Williams
e46d14b	A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see	seeing dark light darkness blinded blindness see shadows	Terry Tempest Williams
32be300	When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.	pain women hurt voice	Terry Tempest Williams
713f639	Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.		Terry Tempest Williams
d0b1c64	What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?		Terry Tempest Williams
93a6835	What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.	lessons school	Terry Tempest Williams
da2546d	When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.	woman abondon intuition secrets soul	Terry Tempest Williams
8771108	Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.	expectations	Terry Tempest Williams
97fd627	I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.	prayer	Terry Tempest Williams
cc25d4b	The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.		Terry Tempest Williams
d960d2b	These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.		Terry Tempest Williams
1c41f65	The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inabili..	middle compromise diversity conversation left right creativity	Terry Tempest Williams
66cf88a	Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.	integrity reality speaking-up speaking-out speaking choose honor voice	Terry Tempest Williams
22ca3d0	To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.		Terry Tempest Williams
af7a205	WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?	doubt speaking-out instinct shame consequences guilt instincts voice	Terry Tempest Williams
b4204fd	Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.	story art connection	Terry Tempest Williams
3d7dd0f	There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.	women inspirational	Terry Tempest Williams
421480e	Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.	womanhood	Terry Tempest Williams
0eb1048	The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.		Terry Tempest Williams
e8581ee	The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same g..		Terry Tempest Williams
e3a86eb	My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.	uncertainty voice	Terry Tempest Williams
97ac602	I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.		Terry Tempest Williams
c5f4cbe	There is no one true church, no one chosen people.	people faith church	Terry Tempest Williams
ce4ff7e	When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.	silence voice censorship	Terry Tempest Williams
281996a	A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.	spirit self shadow	Terry Tempest Williams
bfaba64	I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.	self-knowledge	Terry Tempest Williams
992e377	If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.	risk stand-back-up waves run survive survival running ocean	Terry Tempest Williams
c29a390	Grief dares us to love once more.		Terry Tempest Williams
8f3cd89	I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend word of wounding without having these words becomg the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.		Terry Tempest Williams
0ca5e2a	We mask our needs as the needs of others.	memoir	Terry Tempest Williams
79a680b	Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experie..	story culture conscience	Terry Tempest Williams
26fe387	Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.	death-to-life sanctification redemption transformation destruction	Terry Tempest Williams
ac8dfc3	I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn into the well-worn paths of deer. They lead me to Round Mountain and the bloodred side canyons below Castle Rock. Sometimes I see them, but often I don't. Deer are quiet creatures, who, when left to their own nature, move slowly. Their large black eyes absorb all shadows, especially the flash of predators. And their ears catch ..		Terry Tempest Williams
4589a33	To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly."	silence silent voice	Terry Tempest Williams
1cbb88c	Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.	creative breaking-patterns thinking-differently patterns creativity	Terry Tempest Williams
75176da	Not everything is meant for all to hear.	voice	Terry Tempest Williams
329afbf	Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.	opportunity learning grow growing	Terry Tempest Williams
c83b915	I wonder what would happen if you gave up your need to be right?		Terry Tempest Williams

7271e2d

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.

faith inspiration

Terry Tempest Williams

147d9c1

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

self-betrayal intuition

Terry Tempest Williams

43ed832

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.

women sing celebrate

Terry Tempest Williams

4e40620

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

meaning inspiration

Terry Tempest Williams

b83f615

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

suffering

Terry Tempest Williams

15150ef

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change. I write to honor beauty. I write to correspond with my friends. I write as a daily act of improvisation. I write beca..

Terry Tempest Williams

bdbb4da

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

silence women writing-whisper

Terry Tempest Williams

e46d14b

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see

seeing dark light darkness blinded blindness see shadows

Terry Tempest Williams

32be300

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

pain women hurt voice

Terry Tempest Williams

713f639

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Terry Tempest Williams

d0b1c64

What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?

Terry Tempest Williams

93a6835

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

lessons school

Terry Tempest Williams

da2546d

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

woman abondon intuition secrets soul

Terry Tempest Williams

8771108

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

expectations

Terry Tempest Williams

97fd627

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

prayer

Terry Tempest Williams

cc25d4b

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Terry Tempest Williams

d960d2b

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

Terry Tempest Williams

1c41f65

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inabili..

middle compromise diversity conversation left right creativity

Terry Tempest Williams

66cf88a

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.

integrity reality speaking-up speaking-out speaking choose honor voice

Terry Tempest Williams

22ca3d0

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

Terry Tempest Williams

af7a205

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

doubt speaking-out instinct shame consequences guilt instincts voice

Terry Tempest Williams

b4204fd

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

story art connection

Terry Tempest Williams

3d7dd0f

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

women inspirational

Terry Tempest Williams

421480e

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

womanhood

Terry Tempest Williams

0eb1048

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

Terry Tempest Williams

e8581ee

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same g..

Terry Tempest Williams

e3a86eb

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

uncertainty voice

Terry Tempest Williams

97ac602

I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.

Terry Tempest Williams

c5f4cbe

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

people faith church

Terry Tempest Williams

ce4ff7e

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

silence voice censorship

Terry Tempest Williams

281996a

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.

spirit self shadow

Terry Tempest Williams

bfaba64

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

self-knowledge

Terry Tempest Williams

992e377

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

risk stand-back-up waves run survive survival running ocean

Terry Tempest Williams

c29a390

Grief dares us to love once more.

Terry Tempest Williams

8f3cd89

I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend word of wounding without having these words becomg the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.

Terry Tempest Williams

0ca5e2a

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

memoir

Terry Tempest Williams

79a680b

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experie..

story culture conscience

Terry Tempest Williams

26fe387

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

death-to-life sanctification redemption transformation destruction

Terry Tempest Williams

ac8dfc3

I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn into the well-worn paths of deer. They lead me to Round Mountain and the bloodred side canyons below Castle Rock. Sometimes I see them, but often I don't. Deer are quiet creatures, who, when left to their own nature, move slowly. Their large black eyes absorb all shadows, especially the flash of predators. And their ears catch ..