By bell hooks — 2017
bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: How do we build a community of love?
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CLEAR ALL
Love is not found in just one person, but in many people and many aspects of our daily lives.
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The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.
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