Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
Interpretation
Being disconnected from one's feelings can lead to dangerous consequences.
Eve Ensler's quote emphasizes the importance of being in touch with our own emotions and personal narratives. When individuals become dissociated from their feelings and stories, they may end up facing negative consequences, as this detachment can lead to a lack of self-awareness, poor decision-making, and a disconnect from reality, ultimately causing harm to themselves and others around them.
In practice
This quote can be used in a mental health awareness workshop to highlight the importance of emotional connection.
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
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Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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