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Children Just Like Me, Barnabas Kindersley


my kid’s favourite, and our favourite gift book to give

If you want real political power…


If you want real political power, try telling the truth for a change. - Harvey Milk

I Live Here, Mia Kirshner


monumental compassion

The ideal society…


The ideal society is one that has a place for every human gift. - Margaret Mead

everybody knows


We need to face the fact that there is a level of hierarchical control being exerted on the human species as a whole and that our destiny is not ours to decide. It is in the hands of a weirdly, democratic, amoeboid, hyperintelligent organism that is called Everybody. As we come to terms with this,...

human life


A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our...

lest ye judge


It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do. - Meg Wheatley

fragmented


Sound of Silence Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning.Into the vast uncertainty we call. The echoes make our music, sharp equations which can hold the stars, and marvelous mythologies we trust. This may be all we need to lift our love against indifference and pain. Here in the space...

universal


When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir, Naturalist

save your soul


If we think about it, we find that our life consists in achieving a pure relationship between ourselves and the living universe about us. This is how I ‘save my soul’—by accomplishing a pure relationship between me and another person, me and a nation, me and a race of people, me and animals, me and...

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