Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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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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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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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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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

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