5 Quotes from Books at Hand (a peek at what I do when I’m not at the store):
“The post-anthropocentric ethics of expanded obligations becomes a way of taking responsibility, by the human, for various sorts of thickenings of the universe, across different scales, and of responding to the tangled mesh of everyday connections and relations.” (Joanna Zylinska, Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene)
“Buddhism is about cutting through delusion. I think most of us imagine that delusion is caused by forces outside of our control. We’re ‘educated’ by a society that doesn’t even understand itself. So how can we help but be deluded?” (Brad Warner, Don’t Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan’s Greatest Zen Master)
“This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a ‘better land’, without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?” (H.D. Thoreau, Essays: A Fully Annotated Edition, Ed. J.S. Cramer)
“We live in a world of tricksters. How we conduct ourselves in this world, the ethics of the trickster world, has to do with respecting that subjunctive, hesitant, might-be quality. It has to do with attunement.” (Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological)
“All of us here have fought to defend our right to complexity in a society that demands we compress the totality of being into feminine woman. Unless that category is a comfortable choice, it becomes a suffocating compartment.” (Leslie Feinberg, TransLiberation: beyond pink or blue)
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