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How to Befriend People You Don’t Like

By Allison Briscoe-Smith — 2004

One successful way to combat prejudice, it seems, is by serving as a model to others.

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See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our...

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Valarie Kaur
2020
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Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

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Harriet Lerner
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes.

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Mia Birdsong
2020
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Theory U - Learning from the Future as It Emerges | Otto Scharmer | TEDxTUHH

Otto Scharmer talks about how we, as individuals and collectively as a society, create results no one wants - ecological, social and spiritual divide. He talks about what causes such divides and how we can overcome them.

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Otto Scharmer
2016
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Sandra Ingerman | Southwestern College | Graduation 2009

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of eight books including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, How to Thrive in Changing Times, and Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation.

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Sandra Ingerman
2011
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

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Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)
2019
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Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society

In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2008
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