Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

• 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

• 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

• I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

• I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Grief, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

• Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We have an innate desire for grace. It's not that all our definitions of beauty are the same, but when you see a particular heron in the bend in the river, day after day, something in your soul stirs. We remember what it means to be human.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Broken, Grace

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