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“Ever since he'd given up money, certain people had called him a freeloader, a parasite. (As one comment-thread malapropist put it: "Do you Believe you are smooching off others?") They demanded to know what he was giving back. To which Suelo asked, Who says you need to give something back? What does a raven give? What does a barnacle give, or a coyote? In his view, every living thing gave plenty, merely by existing. But from a strictly materialistic view, his critics had an excellent point. A raven contributes nothing, except of course his own corpse, which will feed some other being. Now Suelo was dying, and he offered his body to the ravens, the coyotes, the ringtails, the mice, the ants.”

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Book:The Man Who Quit Money
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“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect happily-ever-after endings. They get knocked for being too depressing, for using too many big words, for featuring parental characters who are too clueless. Girl protagonists are “too angry” or “too self-absorbed.” The issues raised are “too heavy,” the books “too earnest,” “too quiet,” “too hard,” “too far-reaching,” “too strange,” and it is all too too much for the reader. Except it’s never the readers themselves saying these things. Our critical discourse in middle grade is sometimes much more about what the reviewer believes children’s books should be rather than about engaging with the book itself and the literature as a whole. When we say a book is “too sad,” “too scary,” “too complicated;” when we demand that endings are perfectly happy and all tied up; when we demand that the themes not be too weighty or the characters not face too much hardship; we are projecting our own biases onto the book, and using them to prescribe what books for this age range can or cannot do. This is nannying, not literary criticism—and it doesn’t give kids much credit.”

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“People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus — what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.”

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Book:One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
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“Inspirational Speech by Sami Abouzid We shape our future with every choice we make today. Every action, every intention we set now defines the life we live tomorrow. If you choose to be a reaction to people—constantly moved by their opinions, judgments, and expectations—you’ll remain stuck, unchanged, repeating the same cycle. But if you choose to be a moment maker, a game changer, a visionary who sees opportunity in every challenge and growth in every failure, then your future becomes something powerful, bright, and extraordinary. I started 25 years ago with nothing but a dream and a burning passion. I failed. I fell. I cried. But I never gave up. I learned. I built. I evolved. Today, I stand in full control of my production process, of my art, my sound, and my vision. And I feel like the happiest person alive—not because it was easy, but because it was worth it. Be the architect of your destiny. Don’t just exist—create, build, transform. The future belongs to the bold. — Sami Abouzid”

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