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The mind creates those things that exist.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Corona
California
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I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to the truth. The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.
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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.
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The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
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If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.
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We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
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To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.
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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.
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If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
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Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
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My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
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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.
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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
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Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
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I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the women. And if the women in the Mormon Church are changing, that means the men in the Mormon Church will change - slowly, reluctantly to be sure, but inevitably.
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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.
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We mask our needs as the needs of others.
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