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Transformation or Death
Sometimes it can only take a slight interference in our biological or psychological balance to destroy it. There is no good health, no favorable economic conditions nor peaceful family relationships that can protect us, for example, from unspeakable boredom…
— Jung
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…the writer is no different from the human being, in general: everything we say, everything we do transcends, more or less. We must try to leave behind our world a little cleaner, a little more beautiful than it was, even if that world is a backyard or a kitchen.
— Margaret Yourcenar
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My grandfather’s church wasn’t built by men: so he could never have taught me how to quarrel with God. Our church was nature.
We’ve lost so much…We couldn’t cope with the shock the white man inflicted on us.
…My culture was living in large family communities, and from childhood people were learning to live with each other.
My people didn’t value the confiscation of private property: this action was dishonorable for our people.
The Indian looked at all things in nature as if they belonged to him and was supposed to share them with others and take only those he needed. Everyone loves to give in the same way they receive. No one is…
