Linda Hogan quotes
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“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
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“Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
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“Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”
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“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”
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“Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.”
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“Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
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“It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.”
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“A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
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“A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.”
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“There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.”
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“There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.”
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“Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.”
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“There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.”
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“There is a still place, a gap between the worlds, spoken by the tribal knowings of thousands of years. In it are silent flyings that stand aside from human struggles and the designs of our own makings. At times, when we are silent enough, still enough, we take a step into such mystery, the place of spirit, and mystery, we must remember, by its very nature does not wish to be known.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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“tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.”
-- Linda HoganSource : "Solar Storms". Book by Linda Hogan, October, 1994.
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“It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.”
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“Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.”
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“Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.”
-- Linda HoganSource : Linda Hogan (1985). “Seeing Through the Sun”, p.16, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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