Robin Wall Kimmerer on power

As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?

When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.

Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself⁠—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

• Happiness

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

• Morality

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97

• Love