Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are to be the new human, we must begin by embracing love, which always seeks to incarnate itself. Love is enfleshed everywhere. Everywhere the Holy One is shouting and whispering, ‘Let me love you. ’ And all that is asked of us is to receive. In reality, that is our life’s work. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less.
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.