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Ask me what I want to be, but not before you ask me who I want to be. Ask me who I want to be, but not before you ask me the more searing question of who I am.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"...storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it...”
Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times | Are.na
When people or groups become too enamored with mountaintops, we should ask ourselves whether their euphoria comes from love or from the experience of supremacy.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
thoughts and ways were never anything like mine? But each year I know love and belonging—a love that doesn’t require sacrifice at the altar of acceptance—I become more of who I already am. I am liberated into what Merton calls my “true self.” I believe this is my deepest calling.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
