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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the impermanence of life and the inevitability of change and loss.
Eve Ensler's quote emphasizes the inherent uncertainty in life, highlighting how security is a fleeting illusion. It reminds us that aging, illness, and the departure of loved ones are universal experiences that shatter our perceptions of stability. By acknowledging these truths, we can learn to embrace life in its transient nature, fostering resilience and acceptance amidst the challenges we face.
In practice
In a motivational speech emphasizing resilience in the face of life's challenges.
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.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
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."
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.
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