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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
Susan Griffin
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Susan Griffin
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
Susan Griffin
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Susan Griffin
But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
Susan Griffin
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.
Susan Griffin
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
Susan Griffin
One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.
Susan Griffin
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
Susan Griffin
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.
Susan Griffin
Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.
Susan Griffin
Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
Susan Griffin
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
Susan Griffin
There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
Susan Griffin
War starts in the mind, not in the body.
Susan Griffin
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
Susan Griffin
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin
Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
Susan Griffin
