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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Soul Surgery: Some Thoughts on Incisive Personal Work

by Howard Arnold Walter

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Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home by Alan Graham

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If you believe in mitigating homelessness and bringing palliative relief to those suffering on the streets, then you believe in the power of relation, not transaction. You believe in friendship, not funds. You believe in love as ultimate ...more

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Matt’s Quotes

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

tags: justice, social-justice

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“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service

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“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: change, sensibility

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“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

tags: activism, awareness, change, education, knowledge, revolution, truth

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“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”
― Haile Selassie I

tags: courage, humanity, men, race, spirit

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