page 173, The Summer Tree

[threeplusfire]

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behaviour that they force us, in acknowledging, that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

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[reive.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that on the macro, world level, the nature of these events is about destruction and on the micro, personal level these events are about creation.

Which says something about our species perhaps being packed too tightly togther to know what to do with itself.

[ex-candles994.livejournal.com]

Great quote.