Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
I am a writer of fragments.
Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
Crises are harbingers of evolution.
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.