World of the imagination

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George Santayana once said, "Another world to live in is what we mean by religion." And so, too, the world of the imagination and the enlargement of human sympathy it provides.

Joyce Carol Oates, 3 Minutes or Less: Life Lessions from America's Greatest Writers

Saving the world

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Before we move from recklessness to responsibility, from selfishness to a decent happiness, we must want to save our world. And in order to save our world we must learn to love it – and in order to love it we must become familiar with it again. That is where my work begins, and why I keep walking, and looking.

Mary Oliver

Seed of growth and liberation

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Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation.

Anthony de Mello

Prefigurative Politics

Prefigurative politics:
means that you can and perhaps ought to embody what you avow - that you cannot get to peace through strife, to justice by bullying; that you win a small victory by embodying freedom, justice, or joy, not just campaigning for them.

Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics