Category Archives: Spirituality

Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown

2/8/18

Really incredible book. Highly recommend for anyone doing social justice work.

all that you touch
you change
all that you change
changes you
the only lasting truth
is change
god is change

What is Emergent strategy?
- Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.

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Wasáse – Taiaiake Alfred

10/10/17

Powerful book on indigenous resistance. Though very dense. I did not read the whole book but I learned a lot.

Government / Settler Culture
- European philosophies have always been much less concerned about the search for truth than with providing intellectual covers for the exercises of brute power by white rulers.

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Warrior of the Light – Paulo Coelho

2/10/17

That is why they are Warriors of the Light. Because they make mistakes, because they ask themselves questions, because they are looking for a reason they are sure to find it.
If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off.

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All About Love – Bell Hooks

Powerful book on love.

3/28/16

What is love?
- Love: “The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action.

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City of Refuge – Starhawk

Let the sadness flow, for if you hold it back, it will block your pleasure. Breathe.
Expiring money: The more they got, the more they needed to spend them before they expired, which they did after a year. You don’t need to save them.

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Octavia’s Brood – Collection

This is a great book. Short stories of visionary fiction from mostly activist writers. Very interesting.

In it’s essence, social justice work, which King embodied and Butler expressed so skillfully in her novels and stories, is about love – a love that has the best hopes and wishes for humanity at heart.

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The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk

This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It presented a very powerful and personal vision of how society could be. Not utopian, still with challenges, still hard, still taking work, still real. But with virtually no oppression or suffering.… Read the rest

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Wonderful short novel about achieving your goals.… Read the rest

Conversations with God, Book 2 – Neale Donald Walsch

A friend Victor recommended this to me because he’s really into these books and this one is about global society. It is a very unique view of God, religion, spirituality and people. I had some trouble with parts of it, but overall it was very interesting and I got a lot of new ideas from it.… Read the rest

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Category Archives: Spirituality

Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown

Wasáse – Taiaiake Alfred

Warrior of the Light – Paulo Coelho

All About Love – Bell Hooks

City of Refuge – Starhawk

Octavia’s Brood – Collection

The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Conversations with God, Book 2 – Neale Donald Walsch