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The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

Aurora Levins Morales

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

Aurora Levins Morales

Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.

Aurora Levins Morales

Aurora Levins Morales

Aurora Levins Morales

Born: February 24, 1954 (age 70)

Bio: Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.

Known for:

Getting home alive (1986)
Medicine stories (1998)
Remedios (1997)
Kindling: Writings on the Body (2013)
Cosecha and Other Stories (2014)

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