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A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.
“To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”
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“When we condemn men--corporate employees and ngo functionaries, police, soldiers--for taking advantage of hungry women and children, we stay within the bounds of conventional morality. When we ask why women and children are made hungry in the first place, why their economies or societies have collapsed, why they are abjectly dependent on food aid or why corporate mercenaries are at large in their countries, we risk departing from the conventional by rejecting the camouflaging power of scale, and holding the larger crimes to be as wicked as the smaller ones.
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
― Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
― Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
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