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“To build community, it is important to accept the insight of interbeing, of interconnectedness. We must realize that happiness is not an individual matter. Finding happiness through our separate, individual self is impossible.”
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
“We let individualism prevail in the twentieth century, and frankly, we have made a mess of it. We must begin anew for the twenty-first century; we need a new, different direction. We can no longer continue destroying ourselves and the planet we live on. With determination we can abandon the cult of individualism and the self, and act and live in harmony, in the spirit of interbeing.”
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
“Our practice for the new century should be to transform the notion that we are separate selves and to liberate ourselves from the prison of the individual. The most meaningful practice we have today is to learn how to live as a sangha.”
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
― Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
“What we must realize is that it’s not thinness that is being eroticized. What is being eroticized is the submission thinness represents in our culture. Thinness is a secondary characteristic. The true commodity is the willingness of women to acquiesce to cultural control. Controlling women’s body size is about controlling women’s lives. This claim to control is based on fantasies of masculine superiority bolstered by the culture. This control does not just apply to thinness.”
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“We are taught that men are the key to happiness and fulfillment. We fear that without heterosexual marriage and childbearing we cannot become people who matter or “real” adults. It is this nexus of desire and fear that is the breeding ground for self-destructive behavior like dieting. Rather than being taught that you deserve love simply because you are a person, you are taught that love is something people must earn through particular socially sanctioned methods. For many women, that method is weight control.”
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
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