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Bite Into The Apple
It is in playing
and only in playing
that the individual child or adult
is able to be creative and to use the whole personality,
and it is only in
being creative
that the individual
discovers the self.
— Donald Winnicott
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‘’Imagine that it didn’t happen the way you were told in the religious communities of childhood. Imagine hearing Eve’s words read from the sacred text one morning at your church, synagogue, mosque, or women’s circle:
As the Mother of all Living, I pick the fruit of life. It is good and satisfies hunger. It is pleasant to the eye. It is wise and opens the way to self-discovery and understanding. Those among you who are curious, who lust for life in all its fluidity, dare with me — bite into your life and the fullness of its possibility.
After Eve’s words are read, the elder women give an apple to the first person in the row. As the crone hands you an apple, she looks into your eyes and says:
Take and eat of the good fruit of life. You are good. You are very good. Bite into the apple and savor its sweetness.
