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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."


"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food."


"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."


"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."


"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."


"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."


"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."


"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."


"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."


"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."
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