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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 15, 2015 09:24PM

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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

by Alice Munro

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Jan 15, 2015 09:23PM

“We define empathy here as the ability to enter into affective resonance with the other’s feelings and to become cognitively aware of his situation. Empathy alerts us in particular to the nature and intensity of the sufferings experienced by the other. One could say that it catalyzes the transformation of altruistic love into compassion.”
― Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World

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“Loving-kindness and compassion are the two faces of altruism. It is their object that distinguishes them: loving-kindness wants all beings to experience happiness, while compassion focuses on eradicating their suffering.”
― Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World

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“The good news is that racist and antiracist are not fixed identities. We can be a racist one minute and an antiracist the next. What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment, determines what -- not who -- we are.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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“Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it.”
― John Lewis, March: Book One

tags: activism, civil-rights, passive-resistance, protest

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“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

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