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Deena Metzger Biography

Deena Metzger (born September 17, 1936) is an American writer, healer, and teacher whose work spans multiple genres including the novel, poetry, non-fiction, and plays.

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For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

Unique, Reality, Creative, Vision, Multiplicity

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.

Circles, Hard, Home, Lines, Moving, Stories

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

Act, Art, Creating, Creativity, Same

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

Hidden, Process, Restore, Stories, Understand, Writing

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

Language, Lies, Lying, Percent

It's what we do for each other that heals.

Heal, Heals

I'll tell you how to get up in the morning. . . . . . watch for the dawn.

Dawn, Morning, Tell, Watch, Watches

A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

Encouraging, Inspirational, Knowledge, Life, Sacred, Ultimately

One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

Common, Easy, Effort, Project, Self, Strange

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

Come, Form, Forms, God, Gods, Recognize

To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.

Healing, Essence, Soul, Universe, Essential, Path

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

Discourse, Language, Political, Rightly, Turned, World

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

Self, Imagination, Together, Avoid, Gathering

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

Consensus, Creative, Useless, Wish

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