Susan Griffin

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#religion #religion

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#bodies #body #categorically #children #emotion

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#begin #birth #body #build #connected

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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