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“Transform yourself to transform the world

“People are only mean when they’re threatened,” he said later that day, “and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of

This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.

Strategy is a military term simply meaning a plan of action towards a goal.19

Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.

Unoka was never happy when it came to wars. He was in fact a coward and could not bear the sight of blood.

but ultimately Streisand's resolve won out. "I became what I wanted to be ... I don't want somebody telling me what I can't be," she told me.

over and over again

it becomes known

the peace we seek

is seeking us

While it’s useful to have awareness of the pattern, to tackle an entire belief system and associated behaviours is perhaps to take a lens that’s too wide.