Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Interpretation
Pride can be both empowering and harmful, influencing our emotions and actions in complex ways.
Adrienne Rich's quote suggests that pride is a complex emotion that can elevate us and instill a sense of glory, but it also has the potential to lead to negative consequences if mismanaged. Recognizing pride as a 'double-edged' feeling indicates that while it can motivate and inspire, it can also cloud judgment and create obstacles in relationships and self-perception.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Adrienne Rich notes, pride can be a tricky emotion that we must navigate carefully.'
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Donβt betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Donβt imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.
God seeks comrades and claims love,_x000D_ _x000D_ The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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