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I’m excited to see how the goddesses embody different archetypes!!!

Making a commitment to only read classic books for fictional stories until I read at least 10 classics

“The point of these acts of goodwill and generosity is not to bring you a specific result. It is to free you to know and express your true nature: the nature of compassionate love.”

I spend all my time reading nonfiction, but I heard that I need balance (imaginative work versus work grounded in reality). How do I pull myself away 😄

I will be really meditating on the contents of the chapter on anger

Although I’m not a mother in the traditional sense, I am a practicing Buddhist who works with children, so I am enjoying these reminders of the kind of caregiver I want to be.

I really love that this book is touching on important concepts that teachers should know about (culturally responsive pedagogy, color muteness, cultural appropriation, etc.), but I’m more excited about the fact that so many of the individuals that I look to as teachers (Thich Nhat Hanh, MLK Jr., and Paulo Freire) have been brought up as leaders to look to for guidance :’)

I’ve been thinking a lot (and long) about the way that our children are pushed away from risk-taking. I love that the author shares the consequences that could (and probably are) following this way of being and living.

Taking this book with me everywhere I go in life

my interest in reading [about] MLKJr. started because of an interview i read with Thich Nhat Hanh and bell hooks in which Thay said, “because we had clung so much to him as a person, we did not bring the essence of what he was teaching into our community.” we memorialize and idolize people, but how often do we take the time to understand them beyond what we’re taught in school? i want to do that more often :)

At the end of chapter five, she makes a comment about how we are the products of so many different experiences that happened in childhood. I was thinking about this recently! Both internal (temperament, personality) and external factors (our relationships, culture, society) influence the people we become. We are such complex beings, so it can be hard to understand ourselves, let alone others.

NO BECAUSE I KNEW THERE WAS GONNA BE A LINK. ONCE I READ THAT THING ABOUT THE SWORD AND THE KNIFE… OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I HAVE TO READ THE NEXT BOOK IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭😭😭😭

i think i figured out who agent daybright is and i’m gagging… but also i’m scared bc what if… 😟

Just read about the importance of breastfeeding. I hope all women have the opportunity to do so in a nature-based way not only for their babies’ benefit, but for their own

“In the words of Rae Maté, ‘We all need to realize that entering a pregnancy should be like entering a shrine, a sacred place and time: a baby is being built… Society needs to protect pregnant women because everybody is creating this child. It takes a world to make a baby.’”

“As soon as the one to four bear babies are born, weighing less than a kilogram, they crawl to their mother’s nipples and begin to nurse. Deb time is spent touching, nursing, nestling, and playing together.” The thought of baby bears playing in little bear home is so cute 😭

I thought, “Why is [the book] reading like this?”… I feel her intended audience for this book was probably men. It’s written in such an assumptive tone. I hate using the word aggressive, but that’s how it feels and I feel like those aspects of it will make it more appealing to men. It demands respect and for you to listen. I feel like this is probably a way you’re taught to write in academia lmao

This chapter… I am crying