...there are both clearings and glades. A glade is a space you find. A clearing is one you make or that has been made. It is a common perception of people now that they don't have time and space, that life is taken up with making money, working, getting from here to there, rather than the primary process of leading a human life. So the clearings first of all make time and room for that to happen. They are little spaces of quiet where things can be seen clearly...
from an interview with Thomas A Clark
from an interview with Thomas A Clark
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...but I think the initial gift is the world. That comes before the question of exchange. We can choose either to examine that gift, working out the best angles, grabbing as much of it as we can for ourselves; or we accept it simply as a gift, and the moment of acceptance seems to me one of great import and at the same time of lightness. It is possible both to accept and give at the same time; to accept the gift of the world and to offer back gratitude, these two are almost inextricably linked. But certainly in raising the question of the gift one is at the same time rejecting the view of the world that is determined by the exchange of money. The non-acceptance of the gift, the examining of the gift-horse's mouth is what builds up the subject. It is what contributes to gravity. The welcoming of the gift as a gift lightens the subject.
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