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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
- First-Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020