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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound

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