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Category: Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

limitations, self-knowledge

Terry Tempest Williams

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Terry Tempest Williams

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

art, beauty, disclusure, private, privicy, silence, voice, writing

Terry Tempest Williams

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

listen, listening, silence, transformation

Terry Tempest Williams

To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

howl, silence, silent, voice

Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

censor, censorship, silence, voice

Terry Tempest Williams

Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.

Terry Tempest Williams

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are.A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be — knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

community, conscience, culture, story

Terry Tempest Williams

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired.

broken, healing

Terry Tempest Williams

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

buddha, suffering

Terry Tempest Williams

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

Terry Tempest Williams

My grandmother simply shook her head and said, “You know what you saw. The bird doesn’t need to be counted, and neither do you.