the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
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To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.
Terry Tempest WilliamsAnd so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.
Terry Tempest WilliamsChoosing 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.
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Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
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I wonder what would happen if you gave up your need to be right?
Terry Tempest WilliamsBut harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.
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Agitation gives birth to creation.
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