Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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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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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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