The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these bodies had become poisonous.
The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.
His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.
The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.
What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.
Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies… we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.