“What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.” LongMomentsBloodCrimeArguingFleshCellsClawsFlesh And BloodProwling Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell” IfsThinkingWayTryingKindHas BeensMomentsBigsEarthNightConnectionsEnglandComplexesDrivingCellsVisibleThat MomentSouthernOrganismsLackingNew England Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.” GivingStatesMomentsBodyPainConsciousnessWonderBirthMiracleCellsAweAlteredChildbirthGiving BirthStates Of ConsciousnessAwe And WonderAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Riane Eisler