Excerpt from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan
I want to take that word emergency a step further than the meaning it has come to hold for us, for this is not merely a crisis of the mind, but it is a potential act of emergence, of liberation for not only the animals of the earth, but for our own selves, a freedom that could very well free us of stifling perceptions that have bound us tight and denied us the parts of ourselves that were not objective or otherwise scientifically respectable.
Excerpt from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan The ears of this language do not often hear the songs of the white egrets, the rain falling into stone bowls.
Excerpt from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.
Excerpt from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan A woman in one of the back chambers begins to sing, a long clear note that fills the whole tunnel.
Excerpt from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Linda Hogan To know what's alive or absent around us, and penetrate the void behind our eyes, the old, slow pulse of things, until a wild flying wakes up in us, a new mercy climbs out and takes wing in the sky.
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