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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

by Octavia E. Butler

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How to Read the Akashic Records: Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey

by Linda Howe (Goodreads Author)

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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

by Cherríe L. Moraga

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“Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: education, gift, nature

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“But I think we are called to go beyond cultures of gratitude, to once again become cultures of reciprocity.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: culture, gift, gratitude, nature, reciprocity

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“We’ve been led to this moment, pushed in the tiniest, most obscure ways.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

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“This is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: gift, nature, value

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“May you study the pink of yourself. Know yourself riverine and coast. May you taste the fresh and the saltwater of yourself and know what only you can know. May you live in the mouth of the river, meeting place of the tides, may all blessings flow through you.”
― Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

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