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The biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for "hill," for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
I was struggling to explain coaching, struggling to explain why it was that, to help people lead well, I was pushing to help them know themselves better.
People often ask me what they should do to redress the balance between the brain hemispheres. The first step to recovering anything is to be aware of how much you are missing by your way of being in the world. So the first question to ask yourself should be: what does my particular take on reality exclude from my vision? There is of course a paradox, in that if you can’t see it, how can you know what it is?
Metaphors Can Make You Blind
Iain McGilchrist
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