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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
— Richard Whately
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This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
— Robert Frost
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Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any…
— Robert Graves
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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,…
— Alexander Pope
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and…
— Abraham Kuyper
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
— Alexander Pope
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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…
— Bell Hooks
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Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere;…
— Alexander Pope
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of…
— Abraham Flexner
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
— Alexander Pope
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