I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Susan Griffin
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  3. It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The... - Roy T. Bennett

  4. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. - Jennifer Niven

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  1. The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is reworked into a new form, one that narrates events...

  2. The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.

  3. My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial. Science is such a category. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to...

  4. The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

  5. 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.

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