Liya Jin
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Liya Jin
Solnit poignantly describes: “We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate, to see or be seen. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear
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Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive.
When we orient so much of our lives around a certain kind of life — whatever version of that we thought we wanted — it can be startling to realize we may not actually want that anymore. It’s another life transition, another means of becoming ourselves.
Rainesford Stauffer • It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted
These moments where one world-system is dying and another is being born are experienced emotionally - as loss, grief, dissonance, confusion, excitement; socially - as contention, struggle, polarisation; and spiritually - as a breakdown in encompassing narrative, meaning and purpose, and a longing for home.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
life necessitates contradictions to ever recreate itself.
