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“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

- bell hooks

bell hooks is an author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender.  Pictured is bell hooks in 1995.  For more information about her, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

We continue a week of quotes celebrating African American History Month and the rich wisdom that enriches us all.  For more information about this time, please consider http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/

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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

- James Baldwin, from his book “The Fire Next Time”

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Dear soul, Love alone cuts argument short, for it alone comes to the rescue when you cry for help against disputes. Eloquence is dumbfounded by Love: it dares not wrangle; for the love fears that, if he answers back, the pearl of inner experience might fall out of his mouth.

- Rumi, “Mathnawi”

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“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

- Indira Gandhi

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“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”

- Anthony Robbins

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“We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.”

- Jon Blais

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To the fearful eye, all is threatening.

To the greedy eye, everything can be possessed.

To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames.

To the resentful eye, everything is begrudged.

To the indifferent eye, nothing calls or awakens.

To the inferior eye, every else is greater.

To the loving eye, everything is real.

- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue pp 62-64

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“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”

- Tom Krause

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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

- Dr. Seuss

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“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

- William Allen White