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There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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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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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.
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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
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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?
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
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I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.
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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
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To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.
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Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.
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Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
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Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.
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