On Reconciliation
“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.” – Alice Munro
“Zen doesn’t believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.” – Frederick Lenz
“The world is not dialectic – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.” – Jean Baudrillard
“You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.” – Jeannette Winterson
“True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.” – Nelson Mandella
”Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman
“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”- Tim B. Tyson
“The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.” – Francine du Plessix Gray
“Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation takes place through the senses.” – Juhani Pallasmaa
“It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.” – Charles Bukowski
Reflective writing prompt: Write or construct a graphic meme about reconciliation