I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and … - Muriel Rukeyser

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The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

Muriel Rukeyser

I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs. Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

Acts, Flames, Introspective, Light, Movement

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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

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