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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
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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Act Ego Learning Past
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
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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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

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