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Search For Beauty
“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, “There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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We Indians do not teach that there is only one God. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate and insignificant things. Stones have power. A thread of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the world of insects and animals have power. We believe you have to respect them by recognizing their presence. Honoring the power of spirits in this way, it also becomes our power. It protects us.
— Russell Means, activist and actor US, Lakota Oglala
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“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth. We’ve been homo sapiens for a long time. Now it’s time to become homo conscious. Our love and admiration for the Earth has the power to unite us and remove all boundaries, separation and discrimination. Centuries of…
