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Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love.

From the moment little boys are taught they should not cry or express hurt, feelings of loneliness, or pain, that they must be tough, they are learning how to mask true feelings. In worst-case scenarios they are learning how to not feel anything ever.

If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.

An individual does not need to be a believer in a religion to embrace the idea that there is an animating principle in the self-- a life force (some of us call it soul) that when nurtured enhances our capacity to be more fully self-actualized and able to engage in communion with the world around us.

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

It is no accident that greater cultural acceptance of lying in this society coincided with women gaining greater social equality.