What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that one can recover from hardships and transform themselves positively.
In this quote, Ursula Hegi uses the metaphor of a river to illustrate the journey of personal healing and transformation. It emphasizes that despite experiencing brokenness or difficulties, individuals have the power to adapt and evolve, finding strength and coherence within themselves once again. The river represents the continuous flow of life, highlighting that resilience and redemption are possible even after challenging times.
In practice
In a speech about resilience after challenges, one might say, 'As Ursula Hegi reminds us, the river shows that we can flow beyond our brokenness.'
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.
America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.
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