“We have a duty to witness the broad spectrum of humanity, rather than to defend our own corner of it.” HumanityDutyWitness Book:Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“A change is coming, whether or not I am paying attention. Life is no longer the same. I can feel it in the people around me: the scramble to get away from it, the terror that it might touch us, the urge to stay high and dry. I can feel us calcifying, separating, drawing in. I hope the change brings justice rather than suffering, connection rather than more rancour. I hope we can all rise above the urge for petty revenge. I hope, most of all, that we can learn to soften into this time and into each other. To merge again, somehow. To melt back into the landscapes that hold us, and that are still releasing the wisdom of millennia, quietly, slowly, if only we can learn to listen.” SufferingHumanityChangeIsolationSoftening Your HeartLearning To Listen Book:Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“We, who so often think we're cultureless, can unpack a galaxy of stories from one garden weed. But the time has come for us to understand what these stories mean to us, and to reconnect with the other stories, too, which are all waiting for us in our gardens and surging up from the cracks in the pavement. We must tell them to our children, so that they can't imagine living without them. Telling them is an act of belonging, a way of pushing taproots deep into the ground. In a world full of restless and displaced people, it's an act of welcome, too. When we tell the stories of the things that inhabit our land, we help newcomers to read the deep terrain around them and perhaps to feel a little more at home. And storytelling is always an exchange; when we listen to what is told to us, we enrich our mythology. We get closer to the big beautiful metaphorical whole.” HumanityStorytellingConnectionBelongingExchange Book:Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age