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bell hooks
“Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience.”
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Paramahansa Yogananda
“Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.”— Persian proverb.”
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

bell hooks
“...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment.”
bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Adyashanti
“Now is just what's happening – minus everything you think.”
Adyashanti

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Caryperk
635 books | 138 friends

Melody
602 books | 71 friends

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192 books | 29 friends

Janet
1,456 books | 166 friends

Karen
244 books | 48 friends

Mandy Lowe
287 books | 31 friends

Kelly
362 books | 30 friends

Susan
33 books | 724 friends

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