You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that facing one's fears or challenges can reveal unexpected beauty and joy.
Helene Cixous uses the Medusa as a metaphor for how we often perceive certain things as frightening or dangerous. However, when we confront these fears directly, we may discover that what we initially perceived as scary is actually beautiful and joyful, encouraging us to change our perspective and embrace the unexpected.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about overcoming fears.
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. _x000D_ Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. Itβs the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder canβt be packaged, and it canβt be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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