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I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
It is where we embrace our questions... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It’s an act of faith. I just follow my heart (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh? (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 inability to make love with the world (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 grace. Wild mercy is in our hands (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
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 words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. 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 (Terry Tempest Williams Quotes)