I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of _-isms_ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist_I wasn__ interested in any religion and the difference between __eligiosity_ and __pirituality_ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn__ interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
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My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of _-isms_ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist_I wasn__ interested in any religion and the difference between __eligiosity_ and __pirituality_ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn__ interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
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