Susan Griffin - A chorus of stones (1992)

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

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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

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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.

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

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What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

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