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To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

Terry Tempest Williams
Taken, Soul, Slow Down
Interview with Heidi Hart, imagejournal.org.

We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.

Terry Tempest Williams
Real, Thinking, Soul
Source: therumpus.net

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

Terry Tempest Williams
Long, Soul, Intuition
Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.115, Macmillan

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

Terry Tempest Williams
Soul, Environmental, Earth

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.

Terry Tempest Williams
Mirrors, Soul, Secret
Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.115, Macmillan

When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

Terry Tempest Williams
Writing, Bird, Soul
Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.90, Vintage

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

Terry Tempest Williams
Heart, Soul, Earth
Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.288, Vintage

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Terry Tempest Williams
Creative, Soul, Evolution
Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.52, Macmillan

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