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Body of the World
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
— Marion Woodman
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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
– Alan Watts
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Men live with eyes closed amidst magical cliffs.
— Le Paysan de Paris », 1925 de Louis Aragon.
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You can’t love a woman, a man, without first having invented them, you can’t love one other person without having invented them, imagined them…
— La Nuit Sera Calme de Romain Gary.
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All we require is the will. The next few decades represent a final opportunity to build a stable home for ourselves and restore the rich, healthy and wonderful world that we inherited from our distant ancestors. Our future on the planet, the only place as far as we know where life of any kind exists, is at stake.
— Sir David Attenborough
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We imagine the world minus its heart, deprived of its family relations, broken into pieces. Why do we do that? Could…
