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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.
To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.
We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.
Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.
Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.
Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.