Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Interpretation
Animals have their own ways of communicating, which often go unnoticed by humans.
This quote by Alice Walker emphasizes the often-overlooked ability of animals to communicate effectively within their own species. It suggests that while animals possess a rich means of expression and interaction, human beings tend to dismiss or ignore these communications, leading to a lack of understanding and appreciation for the complexity of animal lives.
In practice
During a discussion on animal rights, this quote can highlight the importance of recognizing animal communication.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
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I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.
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