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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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